-- -- -- 105s and 57s -- -- -- home-made -- --
S.P.s and all night sessions -- -- -- food -- 
-- -- -- first aid -- -- -- hand at the wheel -- 
keep it coming -- -- -- keep them rolling!

The first CP in a beat-up Luxembourg village. Rain, mud, sleet. I & R patrols; OP's. Constant roar of shells--coming and going. Linemen operate under enemy fire. Waiting for initial assault.

Crossed Sauer into Germany. First break into the Siegfried. 88s coming in constantly.

With 88s beating like drums and the meemies scaring us, we set up the CP. Linemen still set up lines and take a beating. Mud, ruins all around.

More 88s, confusion; first Heinie civilians who stayed in the town. Front lines just outside town.

The first big town. Shells missed only a few houses. CP set up, in house-first time since initial assault.

More mud and rain. 88s trying to knock out bridge--and hit everything but bridge. Forward Regtl. CP set up by men from Hq. platoon.

Crossed the Kyll. CP in schoolhouse; many modern conveniences. General eats in our kitchen--likes it. Tanks, tanks, tanks, all over--and more coming.

Just long enough to wait for further orders. Moved out fast. I & R platoon on reconnaissance in front of forward elements.

CP set up temporarily. We're moving fast. I & R plat. first of 304th to enter Wittlich.

Wittlich; first city. Everything shelled and bombed. Showers, clean clothes. In reserve for 24 hours. Nobody knew it. Company split up. I & R and Commo in Platten. I & R sent out daily patrols--cross the Moselle.

First town that had not been hit. I & R maintains daily patrols. Rhine River just ahead. Waiting for orders to cross it.

Crossed Rhine. Stayed over Easter Sunday. Approved new Nazi flag which flew all over: color-white. (Kitchen stopped cooking. Beginning of the 10-in-1 rations. Platoons do own cooking.)

More white flags--still traveling--roads cluttered--German vehicles, dead horses. Snipers plentiful along the way.

Advanced party hailed upon entrance into town with grenades thrown out of windows--snipers hidden all over the place. Prisoners by the -hundreds-German Luftwaffe makes appearance--strafed convoy--AAA got one--Luftwaffe dropped bombs--missed. Captured Kraut warehouse.

More white flags. Loads of prisoners. Platoon kitchens still feeding 10-in-1s. Captured Kraut airman.

Arrived at night--captured prisoners in homes--threw them out to get billets for night.

Enter town under hall of 88s and flak guns--Luftwaffe out--more strafing. Down two more super fliers. American PWs escape and join our company--moving too fast to send them back - prisoners by the hundreds. Linemen take beating in getting communications to Zeitz.

Spent night in the field - captured Nazi schoolteacher who tried to defend town by using fifteen-year-old boys to fight us--keput!

Second squad of I & R pltn. ambushed. Stopped in Altenburg; found many Allied prisoners in hospital and in cages--released prisoners.

Crossed the Zwickauer Mulde beyond Penig--expected to run into Russians. Germans speaking in to give themselves up. Regiment is the eastern-most of Allied troops in the ETO.

WAR ENDS (for us). 10-in-1 rations stop-fresh food again. Men get sick from it. Showers--clean clothes-movies-reminiscing.