Show t Driver Tells r. r f Nazi Massacre gAU Germany May 22 UP G American ambulance driver drive wounded Germans In iny y andY told Wednesday how howY W Y troops Ignored his Red insignia and shot him four tour I g i after ter he surrendered at the edy crossroads Dec 17 1944 g gat at 74 SS 55 war crimes de- de nta 11 Samuel Dobyns of Santo SallI San San- I to 0 0 6 described to a U. U S S. S court the shooting of I than soldiers as the they tl with w hands upraised in surin sur- sur ler ler in a a. field in Belgium dur- dur the thc battle batU of the bulge was was trapped by cross- cross that day and his ambulance riddled rl by fire He said he had just painted new red crosses on it ft He and his helper hit the dirt and the ambulance was wrecked against a tree He surrendered to toa toa toa a group of ot German troops he testified testified tes tea tilled and one private wanted to kill him on the thc spot Told Not to Shoot An officer o told him not to shoot me me Dobyns said He walked slowly before the thc defendants but was unable to pick out the officer Dobyns said he lie was lined up with perhaps others Including five wearing Red Cross insignia A pistol shot rang out and a man mannear mannear mannear near him fellI fellI fell I broke ranks s and ran to the rear he said Then I 1 heard another pistol shot and others in inthe inthe inthe the rear started to disperse At least two machine guns opened up and we hit the dirt I was shot four times and there were eight or ten other holes in my jacket I I saw three or four tour German soldiers shoot the wo wounded that were crying for crying for help I thought I was the tho only one left alive After several hours Dobyns and 15 or so others jumped up and ran to safety Unable to Identify Dobyns said he could not identify f fy the captors as SS men Homer D D. Ford a military police po- po I lice ice private of Leeton Mo told I how he was captured that day and escaped from the bloody field also after he had been shot As Ashe Ashe Asic he ic lay feigning death he said he heard Germans stamping around and battering the wounded with rifle butts This testimony concluded the prosecutions prosecution's presentation of eyewitness eyewitness eyewitness eye eye- witness accounts by five enlisted men and one lieutenant who survived survived sur sur- ur- ur the shootings All six now have havo been mustered out They were brought by plane to Dachau for the triaL Seventy-one Seventy bodies odies were recovered from the field The court permanently excused these witnesses after the defense counsel indicated they had no further urther cross examination As the therial trial rial adjourned at noon until Thursday the six boarded a plane for the United States |