{"id":1404,"date":"2011-12-23T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2011-12-15T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:12:11","slug":"augusta-chiwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2011\/12\/augusta-chiwy.html","title":{"rendered":"Augusta Chiwy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/files\/2011\/12\/chiwy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1462\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2011\/12\/chiwy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Military Heroes &#8211; Belgian\u00a0 Nurse<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Augusta Chiwy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">BASTOGNE, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2011 \u2013 It was a bitterly cold winter morning when Augusta Chiwy&#8217;s tram pulled into Brussels Central train station, Dec. 16, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The aid station where Augusta Chiwy volunteered on the Rue Neaufchateau in Bastogne, Belgium, was destroyed by German bombs on Christmas Eve 1944, killing 30 American soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>On that very same day at 5:30 a.m., green troops of the 106th Golden Lion Division were rudely awakened from their winter sojourn by a hellish barrage of incoming artillery shells, &#8220;screaming meemies,&#8221; accompanied by the menacing rumble of Tiger and Panther tanks on the move. Just over the German\/Belgian border, out in an area known as the Schnee Eifel, three German armies had assembled almost under the noses of the allies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/06\/band-of-brothers-nurse-augusta-chiwy-someone-you-should-know.html#more\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> for more of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Provided courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Blackfive.net\"><strong>Blackfive.net<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Heroes &#8211; Belgian\u00a0 Nurse Augusta Chiwy BASTOGNE, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2011 \u2013 It was a bitterly cold winter morning when Augusta Chiwy&#8217;s tram pulled into Brussels Central train station, Dec. 16, 1944. The aid station where Augusta Chiwy volunteered on the Rue Neaufchateau in Bastogne, Belgium, was destroyed by German bombs on Christmas Eve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Augusta Chiwy - America in Uniform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2011\/12\/augusta-chiwy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Augusta Chiwy - America in Uniform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Military Heroes &#8211; Belgian\u00a0 Nurse Augusta Chiwy BASTOGNE, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2011 \u2013 It was a bitterly cold winter morning when Augusta Chiwy&#8217;s tram pulled into Brussels Central train station, Dec. 16, 1944. 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