{"id":1573,"date":"1944-12-17T18:11:00","date_gmt":"1944-12-17T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2023-05-12T02:18:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T02:18:35","slug":"page-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[<em>Continued from previous page<\/em>] German plane. They must have looked up our record. We do not lack for excitement now and it is very unusual when our sleep is not disturbed by 88\u2019s, or other artillery pieces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday, 18 December [1944]<\/strong>   <strong>Gros R<\/strong>e<strong>derching<\/strong><br>2ND Platoon subjected to artillery fire all night long, but the boys were well dug in, and suffered no casualties. The F.A. and around them had 6 men killed. P51 flew over today- too low.&nbsp; We put a few holes in his fuselage but didn\u2019t bring him down (Thank God). Big tank battle going on today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 19 December [1944]    Gros R<\/strong>e<strong>derching<\/strong><br>Today was rough.&nbsp; About 3PM the Jerries started heaving everything that they had at us. Watching from a window of my C.P. I saw one of our men hit by shrapnel. He was about 80 yards away. Porterfield (a medic) and myself took off across the field and had to hit the ground twice before we reached him. Two more came over as we were putting him on the stretcher. The wounded man was Gragg.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_1573\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1573-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1573-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Corporal David E. Gragg was a member of Goetz\u2019s unit.<\/span> He took it very nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 20 December [1944]   Gros-R<\/strong>e<strong>derching<\/strong><br>About 12 men were wounded in yesterday\u2019s shelling. Today, A-Btry. lost a gun and a truck to enemy action. Our 2ND Platoon still under constant fire. The 87<sup> <\/sup>&nbsp;Division (we are with it) has pushed ahead further than our forces on the flanks thus making us a spear head.&nbsp; As a result we are being shelled from the flanks. One of the fire units got a deer the other day. They are having venison for dinner tomorrow. <em>[Continued on next page]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Continued from previous page] German plane. They must have looked up our record. We do not lack for excitement now and it is very unusual when our sleep is not disturbed by 88\u2019s, or other artillery pieces.&nbsp; Monday, 18 December [1944] Gros Rederching2ND Platoon subjected to artillery fire all night long, but the boys were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}