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:

• April 1, 1945 — Phil’s second Easter service while in the war
• April 2, 1945 (Part 1) — A secret mission to save the Lipizzaners
• April 2, 1945 (Part 2) — A secret mission to save the Lipizzaners
• April 3, 1945 (Part 3) — A secret mission to save the Lipizzaners
• April 3, 1945 (Part 4) — A secret mission to save the Lipizzaners
• April 3, 1945 (Part 5) — A secret mission to save the Lipizzaners
• April 5, 1945 — Phil’s amazing ‘helmet trick’ ends the life of a skilled German sniper
• April 6, 1945 (Part 1) — Attacking a deceptively quaint but deadly German farming village
• April 6, 1945 (Part 2) — Attacking a deceptively quaint but deadly German farming village
• April 7, 1945 — The amazing capture of the Bad Kissingen resort and for a fleeting moment the war was forgotten
• April 8, 1945 (Part 1) — Phil severely wounded one month before the end of the war
• April 8, 1945 (Part 2) — Phil severely wounded one month before the end of the war
• April 8, 1945 (Part 3) — Phil severely wounded one month before the end of the war
• April 9, 1945 (Part 4) — Phil severely wounded one month before the end of the war
• April 9, 1945 (Part 5) — Phil severely wounded one month before the end of the war
• April 10, 1945 (Part 6) — Phil Larimore the man that bullets could not stop
• April 13-15, 1945 — Phil writes home and FDR dies
• April 23, 1945 — Phil promoted to captain and is perhaps the youngest documented Army captain in WWII
• April 30 — Phil waits in hospital, Hitler commits suicide, and the Third Reich is about to fall

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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