Show shoots sheets repay war heros debt to belgians winchester MASS repay ing a wartime debt col john hanion winchesters Win chesters war hero has presented each ol of 24 villagers in hem roulle boulle belgium with a pair of bed sheets during the critical days ol of the battle of the bulge to in 1944 colonel hanlon had promised the villagers he we would ud discharge the debt after they ill ey had given their irreplaceable beS to camouflage his para chute infantrymen who had dropped onto the surrounding snow covered fields colonel hanlon credited the villagers sacrifice with wit I 1 i saving the lives of many men in the parachute infantry each of the sheets presented to the villagers was marked with the name of a winchester donor more than sheets also were p resented presented to the old peoples home of nearby bastogne castogne Ba |