A greeting card from Goetz’s friend Robert F. Hertz. Cpl. Robert J. “Bob” Hertz was a good friend of Vernon’s in the Army. He served with Goetz in B Battery, 549th Anti‐Aircraft Artillery, 87th Division. He lived in South Carolina with his wife and
they kept in contact with Goetz and his wife, Mary, for many years. Interview with Mary
Goetz, April 14, 2014.
Goetz received this card from Hertz after the war. Goetz later attached this card to a page in his diary that was in close proximity to a diary entry (12 March 1945) that recorded a pleasant reunion between the two men in Lissendorf, Germany.