Show shoots sheets repay war hords heros debt dat to belgians winchester MASS repay ing a wartime debt col john hanton hanion winchesters Win chesters war hero has presented each of 24 villagers in hem roulle boulle belgium with a pair of bed sheets during the critical days of the battle of the bulge in 1944 1044 colonel hanlon had promised the villagers he would discharge the debt after they had given their irreplaceable ets to camouflage his para 0 it chute infantrymen who had dropped onto the surrounding snow cove covered ed fields colonel hanlon credited the he villagers i sacrifice Ace with saving he lives of 0 many men in tho the 50 nd parachute lh infantry fantry each of the sheets presented to the villagers was marked with ahe lie name of a winchester donor more than sheets also were presented to the old peoples home of nearby bastogne castogne Ba |