The story
Meanwhile, the 232nd Infantry on March 15 outposted the entire division front and at the start of the attack Company B with a platoon of Company A had jumped off and captured Hill 302, 500 yards northeast of Reipertswiller, a shambles of a town which was located in the middle of what had been no-man's land. Enemy dead had laid unburied amid the rubble for several weeks and the town gave off a stench that few men will forget. With the town and the hill behind it captured, the same force then pushed on and took surrounding high ground.
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