Fayne Haynes
United States Army
612 Tank Destroyer Battalion

"He had ordered us to surrender.  He said, "All of my men has either been killed or wounded, and from here on out, it's going to be a useless loss of lives, and under a certain article of war, I am going to order you men to surrender."  So he got us out in the road there, not everybody, but it was about thirty people in the road there, and the other platoon -- there was another platoon officer on the next street, and he did the same thing, they had already talked about it.  And they were, after lining us up out there in the road with our hands over our head, the Germans pulled up a tank right in front of us and stopped, and they thought, they was going to take us prisoner, but while we was standing there with our hands over our head, he opened fire with the machine gun and just raked it across and continued to fire until he couldn't see nobody moving.  Then he turned the tank around and drove on off after he thought he had killed everybody."