I’m continuing a blog on most days until mid 2025 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. Below are links to last month’s blogs:

• December 1, 1944 – The US Army Infantry’s Rules of War in WWII – #20-#27
• December 14, 1944 – Phil finally is recovered from a severe leg wound and begins a trains journey back to his men
• December 15, 1944 – Phil is heading into a battle of misery and attrition
• December 16, 1944 – One of the men describes the horrible weather to which Phil was returning
• December 20, 1944 — Freezing weather, trench foot, and battle fatigue was decimating Phil’s men
• December 23, 1944 — On Christmas Eve nearly all of the four million GIs in Europe were desperately homesick
• December 24, 1944 — Phil finally arrives back to his unit just in time for a magical Christmas Eve to remember
• December 25, 1944 — Phil and the men enjoy a Christmas service, a front-line feast, and open gifts from home
• December 27, 1944 — War was not just miserable for the men in the Colmar Pocket, it was a frozen hell
• December 28, 1944 — Crappy boots and trench foot increase the GI’s misery
• December 29, 1944 — Phil had no idea the buzzsaw into which he was walking
• December 30, 1944 — New Year Eve’s Eve was a cakewalk in the Civil War compared to Europe in WWII
• December 31, 1944 — My Dad’s memorable New Year’s Eve’s
• December 31, 1944 — New Year’s Eve memorable for many GIs and Germans

• November 1944
• October 1944
• September 1944
• August 2024
• July 2024
• June 2024
• May 2024
• April 2024
• March 2024
• February 2024
• January 2024

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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