[Continued on previous page] but suffered no casualties. Wrote two letters this evening. Hit the sack 2000.  Saturday, 17 February [1945] Auw, GermanyUp at 0700. Beautiful sunrise but soon developed a ground mist which obscured everything. Bombers came over regardless of unfavorable weather. Found a nest of eggs today. Will have 3 for breakfast in…

[Continued from previous page] Huge flights of bombers passed over head again today. We never tire of watching them; they are graceful things to be so deadly. Fire Unit 5 engaged two jet propelled airplanes last night.  They were traveling at extreme speed and results could not be observed. Our Bn. is 5th out of…

[Continued from previous page] Up at 0600. Had breakfast at 0730. Visited the Zigfried [Siegfried] line today. It was a tough nut to crack and it is easy to see why. Pill Boxes are everywhere but difficult to see because of the natural growth covering each one. They are so placed as to be mutually…

Friday, 23 February [1945] Auw, GermanyUp at 0600. Just another day. Very little activity, Enemy or otherwise. Plenty of planes overhead. The Germans get very little rest. One of our planes inadvertently dropped a bomb near the 1st gun section. No harm done. Studied our maps for a while tonight. Hit the sack at 2200.…

[Continued from previous page] any other day here but when we were in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, there was usually a church somewhere in the vicinity. We would attend, taking with us all the accoutrements of war but somehow they didn’t seem out of place. Perhaps because even the churches showed the scars of battle.…

[Continued from previous page] The 2nd platoon has moved beyond Roth. They are still with the 912th F.A. By the way, the incident of the truck versus 88 took place adjacent to a dynamite dump. Lt. Lavin was seeking protection behind several boxes of TNT. The next shell landed behind a rapidly moving jeep. Prisoners…

From a bottle of captured brandy. [See Insert 43 on Wednesday, February 28, 1945.]

[Continued on previous page] The Germans are fighting a losing battle but they are still fighting.  It is some consolation to know that every civilian killed is German, that every shell and every bomb drops on German soil and German industry.  That every foot of progress is a reminder to the German people of Nazi…

Saturday, 3 March [1945] Auw, GermanyUp at 0600. Shaved and had breakfast by 0800. An uneventful day as a whole. 2 Me 109’s came over this morning. They didn’t linger long. The weather is unpredictable. The sun has been out intermittently all day. It was warm when the sun shone, cold otherwise. It snowed enough…

[Continued from previous page] sanctuary in East Germany, they will only run into death.  Our planes are always on the alert, especially at the points where the Jerries are supposed to pass through on their retreat and any movement on the roads or adjacent fields etc.  will be bombed and strafed.  It is impossible to…