[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 99 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 99

    Recognizing the 11 African-American soldiers of the 333rd Field 
 Artillery Battalion who were massacred in Wereth, Belgium, during the 
                 Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 27, 2017

   Mr. Manchin (for himself and Mr. Cotton) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Recognizing the 11 African-American soldiers of the 333rd Field 
 Artillery Battalion who were massacred in Wereth, Belgium, during the 
                 Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.

Whereas, in December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, soldiers 
        of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion, an African-American unit of the 
        Army, were operating in support of the 106th Infantry Division when the 
        106th Infantry Division and the soldiers from the 333rd Field Artillery 
        Battalion were overrun;
Whereas, months after the Battle of the Bulge, the frozen bodies of 11 soldiers 
        from the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion were found near the Belgian 
        hamlet of Wereth;
Whereas the bodies of the 11 soldiers were--

    (1) identified as James Stewart of West Virginia, Due Turner of 
Arkansas, Curtis Adams of South Carolina, Mager Bradley of Mississippi, 
George Davis, Jr., of Alabama, Thomas Forte of Mississippi, Robert Green of 
Georgia, James Leatherwood of Mississippi, Nathaniel Moss of Texas, George 
Motten of Texas, and William Pritchett of Alabama;

    (2) examined by Army Medical Corps officials; and

    (3) found to have been stabbed, shot, and struck by blunt force;

Whereas the massacre of the 11 African-American soldiers of the 333rd Field 
        Artillery Battalion in Wereth remains unknown to the vast majority of 
        the people of the United States;
Whereas, in 2004, a permanent monument in Wereth was dedicated to the 11 
        African-American soldiers of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion who 
        lost their lives in Wereth during the Battle of the Bulge in the effort 
        to defeat fascism and defend freedom; and
Whereas the 11 patriots have become known as the ``Wereth 11'': Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That the Senate, on behalf of the United States, 
recognizes the dedicated service and ultimate sacrifice of the 11 
African-American soldiers of the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion who 
were massacred in Wereth, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in 
December 1944.
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