Several of the figures ran off of the bridge and faded into the fog just as an 88mm high-explosive round detonated, kicking up dirt, grass, rocks, and shrapnel. A few other tanks followed suit and, within seconds, the whole front of the panzer column was blazing away at the area around the bridge.
The column’s lead panzer opened fire on them with its hull-mounted machine gun. Standing tall in the cupola of his tank, Peiper peered through his binoculars and looked again towards the bridge, where he noticed several fog-obscured figures scrambling across the bridge to the opposite bank. The bridge spanned a creek and carried the road into the village of Habiemont. SS Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Peiper squinted down the road, past the lead tanks of his panzer column and towards the Neufmoulin Bridge, a small wooden structure barely discernable in the haze. A thick fog had settled over the ground, worsening the already poor twilight visibility.
It was almost sundown near the village of Neucy, Belgium.
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