{"id":2202,"date":"1945-04-01T18:49:00","date_gmt":"1945-04-01T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2023-05-12T04:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:55:49","slug":"page-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 96"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[continued from previous page]<\/em> Some of the men were able to go to church today.&nbsp; One Jerry plane came over today, a little too low. The last I saw of him, he was diving for a patch of woods.&nbsp; Most of the day was spent improving our position and cleaning our weapons.&nbsp; They require continuous maintenance because of the rough usage. We will doubtlessly move farther into Germany soon. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to meet a Russian Patrol any time now. No mail today.&nbsp; Studied maps for a while, but the front line is still too fluid for accuracy.&nbsp; Hit the sack at 2200.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday, 2 April [1945]  &nbsp; Villmar, Germany<\/strong><br>Up at 0600. The morning was cloudy but the weather cleared up later in the day.&nbsp; Bob and I spent another day Jerry hunting, wandering a little further afield than yesterday but having just as little luck.&nbsp; Lots of Jerry signs, as usual, but they are elusive little rascals (super elusive). We followed a trail of discarded clothing and equipment for several miles finally coming to a huge cave, which had been used recently but which we, with our usual luck, found empty.&nbsp; The fleeing Jerries had left rifles, Bazookas and Burp guns behind, evidently depending upon side arms and speed to see them to safety.&nbsp; Bob and I spent both Easter and Xmas together.&nbsp; It might be well to mention that we pitched a couple of grenades into the cave before entering.&nbsp; It is surprising how much less belligerent Jerries are after such a greeting.&nbsp; C47\u2019s keep flying over dropping supplies.&nbsp; We have very long supply lines due to our rapid advance.&nbsp; We spent the evening writing letters and hit the sack at 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday, 3 April [1945]   Villmar, Germany<\/strong><br><em>[continued on next page]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[continued from previous page] Some of the men were able to go to church today.&nbsp; One Jerry plane came over today, a little too low. The last I saw of him, he was diving for a patch of woods.&nbsp; Most of the day was spent improving our position and cleaning our weapons.&nbsp; They require continuous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":820,"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-2202","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\/2202","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=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}