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Pfc George Davis was an attendant at a filling station.

He enlisted at Fort Benning, Georgia on 5 November 1942.

Captured by German troops during the Battle of the Bulge in the town of Wereth, Belgium on 17 December 1944. He along with 10 other prisoners had their helmets and rifles taken, were forced to sit on the cold and wet ground until dark and eventually made to run nearly 800 meters out of town, chased by a vehicle driven by the German soldiers. They then were brutally murdered and their bodies dumped in a roadside ditch. This atrocity is know as the Wereth Massacre or the Wereth 11.

An autopsy report on the 11 is ghastly: broken legs and arms, jaws shattered, fingers severed, bayonet wounds to the face and body and bullet wounds designed to inflict anguish rather than death.

Pfc Davis was finally killed by a gunshot to the head.

Since 2004 there is a memorial at the site were these soldiers were murdered.

The complete story of the massacre can be found here: http://www.wereth.org.