{"id":1968,"date":"1945-02-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"1945-02-23T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2023-05-12T03:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:58:16","slug":"page-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 69"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Friday, 23 February [1945]   Auw, Germany<\/strong><br>Up 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 1<sup>st<\/sup> gun section. No harm done. Studied our maps for a while tonight. Hit the sack at 2200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, 24 February [1945]   Auw, Germany<\/strong><br>Up at 0700. The weather is clear and not too cold. Our mail clerk, CPL. Donald Martin, is going back to the states for a 30 day furlough.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_1968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1968-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1968-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\"> Corporal Donald Martin was a member of the B Battery, 549th AAA, 87th Division, U.S. Army. Goetz\u2019s good friend, he left a fragment of his own wartime diary with Goetz, who inserted it at the back of his loose\u2010leaf diary. See&nbsp;Diary Inserts,<em> <\/em><a href=\"\/lest-i-forget\/diary-inserts\/#insert-45\u2014-tuesday,-march-6,-1945\">Insert 45<br \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\u200b\u200b<em>, <\/em>for a copy of the furlough order.<\/span> He will be gone about 90 days altogether. The war will probably be over before he returns. I know of no one I would rather see get it, other than myself. I will miss him. We often shared the same room and he was not only good company but a great help. He has been working in the office for about two years and knew the routine as well as I did. Our Bn. was allotted one furlough, through a process of elimination. He finally won out. I certainly envy him. Many more planes again today. The 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 9<sup>th<\/sup> Armies kicked off this A.M. Soon the whole front will be moving again. I hope this is the deciding round. I am ready to go home. No mail for a couple of days. Hit the sack at 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, 25 February [1945]   Auw, Germany<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0\">Up at 0700. Shaved and had breakfast by 0800. We have been at Auw for 21 days. Expect things to start rolling here in a day or two. Weather remains clear and moderate. 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