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March 26, 2025
Under cloudy skies at Lampertheim, five miles inland from the [Rhine] river, the regrouped enemy offered the most resistance of the day.[1]
March 24, 2025
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 […]
March 21, 2025
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]
March 20, 2025
Tonight, March 20, 2025, I’ll be presenting a live streaming event about my father’s WWII exploits and heroics titled: “The Teenage WWII Hero that Bullets Could […]
March 17, 2025
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 […]
March 16, 2025
This Thursday, March 20, 2025, I’ll be presenting a live streaming event on: “The Teenage WWII Hero that Bullets Could Not Stop.”
March 15, 2025
As a warming sun cleared the eastern horizon, the 30th Infantry received tremendous support from the air. When a 1,600-yard breach had been effected, Phil and his Love […]
March 15, 2025
Promptly at 0100 hours on March 15, 1945, the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 30th Infantry pushed off towards the Siegfried Line. Ten battalions of […]
March 14, 2025
On March 14, 1945, the Dogface soldiers gathered behind the border to Germany like an angry rattlesnake, poised and prepared to strike a venomous and final […]
March 13, 2025
On March 13, 1945, the 30th Infantry began moving by truck to an assembly area sixty miles away near Schmittviller, France, still in the Alsace region […]