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C Company had been attached to Combat Command B of 10th Armored Division. On 18 December 1944, two days after the Battle of the Bulge began, his company was assigned to the defense of Bastogne, Belgium. According to a battalion document ("Historical Record of 609 Tank Destroyer Battalion for period 20 September 1944 to 1 January 1945), Pvt George G. Barnett and T/5 Harry D. Greene were wounded in action 21 December 1944 but were killed by a direct bomb-hit on the aid station on 24 December. The incident was mentioned on page 156 of S.L.A. Marshall's book Bastogne: The First Eight Days: "That night the town was bombed twice. During the first raid, in the late evening, a bomb landed on the hospital of the 20th Armored Infantry Battalion near the intersection of the main roads from Arlon and Neufchâteau. It caved in the roof, burying 20 patients and killing a Belgian woman, Renée Lemaire, who was serving as a nurse."