After being stopped near Inzell and Weisbach, the 2nd Battalion turned around and went back on to the autobahn. Somewhere between there and the Saalach, they were detained, not by the Germans or a blown bridge, but by the 3rd Infantry Division.
RWD records on a map that they were held up at a blown bridge and the bypass took them through a town called Ober Tiesndorf. David Webster wrote of his platoon spending the night in a "Hanzel and Gretel village, filled with wounded SS men, a couple miles north of the Autobahn..." (Webster:226) I wanted to find the town he wrote of. If he was there, then 1st platoon was there and Clancy was there.
After turning around from the 306, I followed the route of the 2nd battalion and Clancy. Webster wrote of them staying in houses and that there was a shop that was being looted by Russians. He also wrote of how they marched a mile south of the town into a field where a convoy of DWUKs picked them up.?
Ober Tiesendorf is hansel and gretlish, but was this really the place that E Company stayed at. More contemporanious accounts tentatively place the location they stayed overnight as Bad Reichenhall. I, myself would be staying there since that was the only location I could find to book a place at the time.
In Ian Gardner's book, No Victory in Valhalla, he does mention a Dingman and elements of HQ and B GFA going back to the Autobahn, and, shortly thereafter, their running into the 3rd ID and being held up due to a sabotaged bridge. (Gardner:295) This does appear to coinside with Rondezvous With Destiny's account. And, to some degree, with Webster's account.
Webster's published manuscript seems confused or poorly edited at some points so it was difficult t times to know if the descriptions were correct or accurate. I spent a bit of time driving on the Autobahn looking for the point where the bridges were blown. Rondezvous speaks of them taking a dirt road.
One key point in Webster's account that serves to limit the possibilities, is the mention of a railway bed and a bridge.
