Harold Billow, 99, the last known survivor of a World War II POW massacre during the Battle of the Bulge, will be laid to rest Thursday in Pennsylvania.
Billow, who died May 17, was attached to the Army’s 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion when his unit surrendered and he was taken prisoner by Waffen SS soldiers as German forces launched an offensive in Belgium to try to change the war’s tide in December 1944.
According to various accounts, the Germans opened fire on the unarmed prisoners in a field, killing more than 80 in what came to be known as the Malmedy Massacre.He played dead as the Germans checked for survivors. “Anybody that showed signs of life, they would point-blank shoot them in the head to finish them off,” Billow said.Billow testified at a war crimes trial after the war.Harold Billow, one of the last survivors of the Malmedy Massacre on December 17, 1944, passed away earlier today.
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