Christmas During the Battle of the Bulge: 1st Lt. Belton Cooper

Lieutenant Belton cooper served in World War II as a ordnance officer. He and his team were tasked with recovering damaged allied tanks, often from behind enemy lines, and repairing them. 

In this special holiday episode, he describes a chaotic air raid around Christmastime of 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. 

[Editor’s Note: Peep is another name for a Jeep. Cooper uses that terminology a few times during the episode]

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