{"id":2191,"date":"1945-03-31T18:44:00","date_gmt":"1945-03-31T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2023-05-12T04:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:55:27","slug":"page-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Saturday, 31 March [1945]   Villmar, Germany<\/strong><br>Up at 0600.&nbsp; Sleep was interrupted several times by small arms fire in the surrounding woods.&nbsp; Our S-2 informed us that several vehicles traveling by themselves were attacked last night and the occupants lined up and shot.&nbsp; We will take no more prisoners.&nbsp; Bob and I went on an all-day patrol deep into the woods today.&nbsp; We saw plenty of Jerry signs but no Jerries.&nbsp; We found several piles of equipment which they had abandoned and many uniforms which they had removed.&nbsp; We found a few items suitable for souvenirs.&nbsp; We must have made a fear inspiring picture for anyone who happened to see us.&nbsp; Besides our rifles, we carried grease guns and trench knives and wore grenades, tied to our lapels in such a way that as we grabbed them the pin would pull out.&nbsp; We did not wear helmets, or cartridge belts because of the noise they make going through thickets.&nbsp; We were really equipped for combat.&nbsp; There is a thrill attached to hunting human game that is different from anything else which I have tried.&nbsp; I rather like it.&nbsp; One of the items which I brought back was an air mattress.&nbsp; I\u2019ll try that out tonight. We flushed several deer and killed one to supplement our \u201cC\u201d rations.&nbsp; We hung it up in a tree and returned for it in a jeep. Received a pkg. from Mary today.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_2191\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2191-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_2191-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Mary Anna Louch (1917-2021) of Aberdeen, Maryland was Goetz\u2019s fianc\u00e9e.&nbsp;She married him immediately after his discharge from the Army on December 26, 1945.<\/span>&nbsp;Hit the sack at 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>115th day in combat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, 1 April [1945]  Villmar, Germany<\/strong><br>Up at 0600. The weather is cloudy and we will get far less air support. We do not need it as much as we once did.&nbsp; This would have been a wonderful day for the war to end.&nbsp; Now we will have to look forward to tomorrow.&nbsp; Each day brings us closer to the end of the road. <em>[continued on next page]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 31 March [1945] Villmar, GermanyUp at 0600.&nbsp; Sleep was interrupted several times by small arms fire in the surrounding woods.&nbsp; Our S-2 informed us that several vehicles traveling by themselves were attacked last night and the occupants lined up and shot.&nbsp; We will take no more prisoners.&nbsp; Bob and I went on an all-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":819,"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-2191","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\/2191","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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}