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a house. He had heard all about the tough paratroopers in their baggy
pants and he wondered what they were going to do to him. They dug their
rifles in his ribs and shouted "snell, snell" (the paratroopers' pronunciation
of schnell or hurry). Ullmann wondered why he should hurry just to get shot.
There were only 16 of them and after they had been searched they were pushed
into a barnyard where they joined another 16. They were kept under guard
and that night he got his first corned beef and biscuits and C-rations.

Ullmann had come to Holland from Aachen, Germany and then he was close
to Normandy prior to D-Day. His Division was held back during the D-Day
landings in case anything else happened. He had spent three months in
Holland prior to September, 1944 and he remembers how friendly the Dutch
people were to them. They used to go for meals into their homes. At the
time of Market Garden the Germans were very short of gasoline and they had to
cut wooden blocks to get the trucks started. Whenthe 82nd captured him and
he saw all the gasoline they had he couldn’t think why theGermans were still
fighting.

Ullmann and Ferguson were joking about the possibility of Ferguson’s
Batallion taking Ullmann prisoner and it is just possible that Ferguson did
see Ullmann when he was prisoner in the barnyard. Ferguson remembers about
35 German prisoners and hw was impressed by their youth. He remembered
remarking on one cheeky little guy who had a very dirty face.

Ferguson also commented on the way the Airborne would get the German
tanks by waiting till they had passed their foxhole and then running after them,
climbing on top of the tank and throwing a grenade in the turret. Ullmann