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:

• February 1, 1944 — Phil becomes the youngest Army Company Commander in WWII
• February 2, 1944 — A bone-chilling, thick-as-soup fog and a passing Kraut Panther tank
• February 4, 1945 — Phil writes home about becoming the youngest company commander in the Army
• February 5, 1945 — Phil and his units complete the best bit of maneuvering on the Western Front
• February 6, 1945 — Phil and men sensed the end of the war was closer that the beginning
• February 8, 1945 — After the GIs’ Colmar Pocket victory, the German Nineteenth Army ceased to exist as an effective fighting force
• February 11, 1945 — As training to enter Germany intensified, so did Catholic confessions and Protestant baptisms
• February 12, 1945 — Some well-needed rest, replacements, and recreation
• February 16, 1945 — I almost felt human after six months in hell
• February 21, 1945 — Phil and his men enjoyed a hard-earned 20-day rest while preparing to invade Germany
• February 22, 1945 — Preparing to invade Germany and defeat the Nazis
• February 28, 1945 — Audie Murphy writes about preparing to invade Germany — Hope and fear walk hand in hand

• January 1945
• December 1944
• 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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