{"id":2030,"date":"1945-03-12T19:18:00","date_gmt":"1945-03-12T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2023-06-04T23:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T23:11:55","slug":"page-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[<em>Continued from previous page<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BSO inspects it.&nbsp; There was no mail today.&nbsp; I hit the sack at 2200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>95<\/strong><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_2030\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2030-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2030-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Goetz inserted this number in the margin next to the entry date.&nbsp; The number refers to his days in combat.&nbsp; See entry of 17 March below for his notation on the 100<sup>th<\/sup> day of combat.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday, 12 March [1945]   Lissendorf, Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up at 0600.&nbsp; Shaved and had breakfast by 0730.&nbsp; Another day spent on maintenance.&nbsp; We will be ready for a move any time.&nbsp; The sooner the better.&nbsp; Bob came over for a visit this afternoon.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_2030\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2030-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2030-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\">&nbsp;Cpl. Robert J. \u201cBob\u201d Hertz was a good friend of Vernon\u2019s in the Army. He served with Goetz in B Battery, 549<sup>th<\/sup> Anti-Aircraft Artillery, 87<sup>th<\/sup> Division. He lived in South Carolina with his wife and they kept in contact for many years<em>.&nbsp;Interview with Mary Goetz, April 14, 2014<\/em><\/span> I hadn\u2019t seen him for about 2 months.&nbsp; We had an interesting conversation for a couple of hours.&nbsp; I really enjoyed seeing him again.&nbsp; We had a chicken dinner before he left.&nbsp; He brought me some magazines, which I shall read tomorrow.&nbsp; I struggled through a bath tonight, using an old tub, lots of soap and a little ingenuity.&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t exactly a luxury but at least I got clean.&nbsp; We have a bridge head of about 48 sq. miles on the east bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Coblentz.&nbsp; It is as secure as time has permitted but we can look for plenty of stormy weather in that vicinity.&nbsp; Our P\/X rations came today.&nbsp; Bombers came over in huge numbers this afternoon.&nbsp; Blowing hell out of Hitler\u2019s already dead dreams.&nbsp; No mail again today.&nbsp; Hit the sack at 2200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 13 March [1945]   Lissendorf, Germany<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up at 0630.&nbsp; The weather cleared up this morning and we had a whole day of sunshine.&nbsp; It was actually hot.&nbsp; Visited F.U. 4 and spent several hours checking their guns and talking to the men.&nbsp; They are ready for action and raring to go.&nbsp; We have packed everything possible tonight because we leave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<em>Continued on next page<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Continued from previous page] BSO inspects it.&nbsp; There was no mail today.&nbsp; I hit the sack at 2200. 95 Monday, 12 March [1945] Lissendorf, Germany Up at 0600.&nbsp; Shaved and had breakfast by 0730.&nbsp; Another day spent on maintenance.&nbsp; We will be ready for a move any time.&nbsp; The sooner the better.&nbsp; Bob came over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":803,"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-2030","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\/2030","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}