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[Continued from previous page<\/em>] They had to thaw out cans of milk for coffee. They had to break ice in their water cans, cleaning and preparing turkeys which are frozen solid is no easy job\u2010 even in Garrison\u2010 but to do it out in the field in sub\u2010freezing weather, is really tough. I raise lots of hell with the kitchen, but in spite of it all, they do a pretty good job. Outch you guessed it\u2010 MARCH ORDER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, 26 December [1944] Somewhere in France<\/strong>
We pulled out of Lohr at 5 P.M. yesterday and headed for Reims.1<\/a><\/sup>Reims is located in the Champagne\u2010Ardennes region of France, eighty miles northeast of Paris. It suffered severe damage during World War I, most notably to its historic cathedral, and endured further destruction during World War II. Following the Allied Invasion of France in 1944, it served as the headquarters for Allied forces, and the site of the unconditional surrender of the German Army on May 7, 1945.<\/span> Column was strafed and we had to move black out. Finally after running out of gas and begging a new supply, losing Convoy in the middle of France, we arrived at Rendezvous point \u2010 tired, cold and disgusted. Set up Guns in field N.E. of Reims. This is old Battlefield of 1ST World War. Fired at P\u201047 which buzzed our column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, 27 December [1944] East of Reims<\/strong>
Spent day setting up C.P. and distributing rations. We now receive our rations free of charge \u2013 cig, candy, gum, shaving cream, tooth paste, tooth brush, and very occasionally cigars. At 4 P.M. we got a special mission. Jerry bombs the station in Reims every night. Our Btry. was picked to get him. The General said that if we got him, we could have anything we wanted. The two platoons moved out this afternoon to set up for the Jerry. I am really anxious to hear how they made out.Patton knocked hell out of the Jerry attack yesterday.2<\/a><\/sup>On December 26, Patton\u2019s Third Army captured the Belgian market town of Bastogne. Patton believed that the battle at
Bastogne would one day be considered \u201cjust as important as the battle of Gettysburg was to the Civil War.\u201d Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light<\/em>, pp. 467\u201068.<\/span> I hope he keeps that third army rolling. We are back with the third army again now. They just can\u2019t do without us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Continued from previous page] They had to thaw out cans of milk for coffee. They had to break ice in their water cans, cleaning and preparing turkeys which are frozen solid is no easy job\u2010 even in Garrison\u2010 but to do it out in the field in sub\u2010freezing weather, is really tough. I raise lots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":634,"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-1594","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\/1594","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}