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:

• March 6, 1945 — Phil receives four battle awards and an invitation to a fancy Nancy dance
• March 9, 1945 — At the Regimental Officers Dance Phil is personally congratulated by General O’Daniel who calls him a helluva fighting man
• March 13, 1945 — Phil and his men prepare for the final dance of WWII
• March 14, 1945 — Almost ready to attack Germany and end WWII
• March 15, 1945 (part 1) — The attack across the Siegfried Line into Germany begins
• March 15, 1945 (part 2) — Eliminating the deadly pillboxes and breaching the dreaded Siegfried Line into Germany
• March 16, 1945 — The grinding, slashing, grueling fight into Germany
• March 20, 1945 — The rapid collapse of the German defenses under relentless American attack
• March 24-25, 1945 — Crossing the Rhine all but assured Germany’s coming defeat
• March 26, 1045 – Phil and his 30th Infantry steamrolled eastward through the German countryside
• March 27, 1045 — Phil and his men luxuriated in hot water, flush toilets, soft toilet paper, and warm, clean, comfortable beds
• March 30, 1945 — For Phil it was déjà vu all over again
• March 31-April 1, 1945 — Phil’s second Easter service while in the war

• February 1945
• 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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