I’m continuing a blog on most days for the next 18 months or so following my father’s exploits and adventures during WWII. Each blog will represent what he and the men with whom he was fighting were doing 80 years ago on the exact day of the blog. Here are last month’s blogs:

• February 10, 1944 – Arrives in North Africa
• February 11, 1944 – Writes home from French Morocco
• February 12, 1944 – Rides a famous Berber war horse in Morocco
• February 13, 1944 – Rides a train to the war
• February 15, 1944 – Ships out to Naples
• February 16, 1944 – Future units pinned down on Anzio
• February 17, 1944 – Meets a dressage master
• February 18, 1944 – Rides a master dressage stallion – Magellan
• February 19, 1944 – Ships out to Anzio
• February 20, 1944 – Arrives at his new unit on Anzio
• February 21, 1944 – Arrives at his new battalion on Anzio
• February 22, 1944 – Meets his Ammunition & Pioneer platoon
• February 23, 1944 – Faces his first death on the front line at Anzio
• February 24, 1944 – First days on the front-line in war
• February 27, 1944 – Writes home from Anzio
• February 29, 1944 – Surviving a vicious attack on Anzio

You can read more about his heroics and exploits in At First Light: A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse.

In case you haven’t read or listened to Dad’s book, you can learn more or order it here.

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