A survivor from December 17, 1944, a week before Christmas was
PFC William F Reem (1923-2003) from
Elizabethtown PA. His daughter was in the EAHS class of 1974.
December 17, 2019 (75 years later):
... the daughter of Pfc William F Reem, is in Malmedy Belgium memorializing her father. Today by chance, she encountered a similarly aged American on the tour who was the son of a soldier in the Jeep that encountered and saved PFC Reem on his dangerous return to American troops ....
The brother of William Reem would have his own day during the Korean war.