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:

• March 3, 1944 – Dad is part of the ‘Rock of Anzio’
• March 4, 1944 – Letters home from Anzio
• March 5, 1944 – The grim and deadly struggle for life on the beachhead of Anzio
• March 6, 1944 – Farm houses and foxholes at Anzio
• March 7, 1944 – Rest Camp on Anzio
• March 8, 1944 – Trenchfoot and the smell of death at Anzio
• March 9, 1944 – Letters home from the Anzio beachhead
• March 10, 1944 – Dad comes down with malaria
• March 11, 1944 – Hospitalized on Anzio with malaria
• March 12, 1944 – Dad’s admiration for the amazing Army nurses
• March 13, 1944 – Stories of Army nurses in WWII that will swell your heart
• March 14, 1944 – Skirmishes increase on the Anzio front line
• March 15, 1944 – Baptism by fire (Part 1)
• March 16, 1944 – Baptism by fire (Part 2)
• March 17, 1944 – Dad’s first medal of valor caused Mount Vesuvius to blow her top
• March 18, 1944 – To seize a beachhead like Anzio was one thing—to hold it indefinitely was another
• March 19, 1944 – Not a single spot on Anzio Beachhead is safe from enemy gunfire
• March 20, 1944 – On Anzio a beachhead order to the men to wear steel hats or pay fine
• March 21, 1944 – Bombing brings new suffering to Anzio hospital but swimming and baseball continues
• March 22, 1944 – Rest camp, replacements, and those amazing LSTs
• March 23, 1944 – Was Ernie Pyle, the most famous correspondent from WWII ever scared?
• March 24, 1944 – Supply lines at Anzio
• March 25, 1944 – Fate of Anzio Beachhead rests heavily on the ‘Ducks’
• March 26, 1944 – A well-deserved break at a rest camp
• March 28, 1944 – Sometimes you hear shells coming, sometimes you don’t on Anzio
• March 29, 1944 – Living in a covered foxhole for 45 consecutive days on Anzio
• March 30, 1944 – Deserted city where Nero fiddled while Rome burned
• March 31, 1944 – A long letter home from Anzio

• List of my February 2024 Blogs on “Where was Dad 80 years ago today?”
• List of my January 2024 Blogs on “Where was Dad 80 years ago today?”

Could I ask a favor? Could you let friends and family who are WWII aficionados know about the blog? They can sign up for it at www.DrWalt.com.

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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