Private billets--barns. Security; motorized patrols. 70-mile ride through Luxembourg.

Positions on Sauer; Siegfried Line. Purple hearts. Jerry patrols. Mine fields, booby traps. Forward CP in "Log City."

Regimental reserve. Hot showers, movies. Formed assault squads; preparation Siegfried Line. Flame throwers, bangalores. Patrols.

Division reserve. Built corduroy roads; supplies to 417th.. PW inter-rogation. German soil. (Found cache of liquor--liquidated!)

Attack mission across Prüm. Night; hills; woods; PWs. Enemy mortars in mine field; casualties. Snipers. Afternoon attack. Open field. Objective taken: reorganized in woods. Counter-attacks repulsed. (More artillery than any other battle.) Rest of woods cleared next day. (10 MGs knocked out, 60 PWs, 20 Jerries killed.) Next day waded Nims; artillery, meemies. On 27th, helped take Meckel, dug in on high ground; direct 88 fire; executed flanking movement. Attacked town. Town taken. Artillery, mortar; withdrawal, reorganization.

Spearheaded over Kyll; MG fire; cliff. Cleaned town; went for Preist. Speicher--S-A, artillery. English signs--"Scenery beautiful but dangerous," "See the Rhine, leave your skull." (Kraut company surrendered to us here.)

Supposed to have week rest. Did receive replacements. On 12th attached to 3rd Bn. Night action; new men a little uncertain.

Met forty Jerries coming upstreet. Jerries dispersed, started shooting. Cleared this up and pulled out.

Up hill through woods; after awhile, halt. Wounded why? Heard artillery observer direct three rounds. Knocked out gun; munitions dump. PW said: "most accurate firing in six years--Eastern--Western fronts.

100 mile ride; open trucks; mountains. Arrived at night; direct observation across the Rhine. 12 mile holding position.

Bridge security. Patrols cross Rhine daily. (Billeted--swanky hotels; even promoted sheers. Looked out of window as you ate; wondered why Jerries didn't quit!)

Came "the hard way." Mission: clean out woods; arrived on bloody stumps; 30 miles.

One platoon by truck to take two small towns. Jerry plane; four mounted guns opened up. Everyone dismounted. At Langensalza, sardines, frankfurters, beer, etc., courtesy of Wehrmacht.

Rumor, battalion to take seven towns. Understatement: nine that day. First town easy. Snipers on flanks; held up. Luftwaffe dived low. Moved on Schwerstedt. Platoons deployed. Jerries pin down rifle platoons--MG, sniper fire. Weapons platoon scored direct hits. Tanks, another rifle company . . . relieved situation. Forward again--with tanks, 57s mounted on trucks. Straussfurt. Snipers, MGs, cleared up in short order. Two more towns.

Vehra, Bad Tennstedt, Wernigshausen. Regt. Reserve. Rested after tough day. Entrucked behind CCA; close support to armor. Platoon at a time ahead to guard bridges. As tanks rolled by, guards received bottles wine, cognac, cigarettes, "K" rations.

Bridge guard over Zwickauer Mulde, Chemnitz Rivers. (DPs "patronized" unattended store.)

Company relieved; to Burgstädt--defensive positions. Contact with Russians awaited.