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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 […]
March 9, 2025
At an awards ceremony, 3rd Infantry Division commander, General John W. O’Daniel. paid homage to Phil, saying, “To a helluva fighting man.” Then he smiled and leaned […]
March 6, 2025
At the end of the first week in March, a regimental ceremony was held in a beautiful meadow overlooking the charming city of Nancy, France, which […]
March 3, 2025
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 […]
March 2, 2025
Here are the contents of this month’s newsletter: Save the Date (3/20/25) – My streaming presentation of “The Teenage WWII Hero that Bullets Could Not Stop” […]
February 28, 2025
One day the leaf buds appear again on the trees; and in the rear area, where we have been stationed since the fall of the Colmar […]