World War II Blogs

Takeoff for Operation Lipizzaner, as Phil was calling it, was precisely at 0400 hours on Tuesday, April 3. General O’Daniel and Colonel McGarr were both there […]

Phil said, “What can I do?” Major Scott smiled, “I like a man who gets to the point. [1]

On a rainy, cold Monday, April 2, the day after Easter, the 30th Regiment was preparing to move by motorized vehicles about twenty miles to a […]

On March 31, the weather turned cloudy and cold, but the men of the 30th [Infantry Division] were given a time of rest over the Easter […]

The next plan was to cross the Main River, a barrier nearly as wide as the Rhine, which called for another spearhead by the 30th Infantry.[1]

In one village, a German civilian met the GIs with a white surrender flag and escorted them to a large wooden building, where they found a […]

Under cloudy skies at Lampertheim, five miles inland from the [Rhine] river, the regrouped enemy offered the most resistance of the day.[1]

The 30th Infantry Regiment, with Phil’s 3rd Battalion in the lead, covered sixty miles in three days to assemble directly west of Mannheim and the Rhine […]

On March 20, 1945, the 30th Infantry attacked and quickly cleared Zweibrücken, which had been nearly flattened by an Allied bombing raid a few days earlier.[1]

The grinding, slashing, grueling fight [into Germany] continued for several days, made more difficult when the retreating Germans demolished every bridge in the path of the […]