Won’t They Ever Give Up Spring

It had been a long war, but then again, any war is a long war. We were supposed to be home by Christmas, but Hitler had other ideas, and those other ideas damn near worked. Driving us almost to the …

1945-04-05

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It had been a long war, but then again, any war is a long war. We were supposed to be home by Christmas, but Hitler had other ideas, and those other ideas damn near worked. Driving us almost to the Meuse, they captured thousands of Gls, not to mention the slaughter of a hundred more at Malmedy. But that’s okay, we got a few of them at Chenogne. Next the generals told us the Germans would collapse when we crossed the Rhine. I guess someone forgot to tell the Germans. Now we were in Germany. Everyone hated us. Everyone was an enemy. Especially those guys in the field gray with the machine guns defending that village.

Rhine River, Germany

Operation Lumberjack was a military operation with the goal of capturing the west bank of the Rhine River and seizing key German cities, near the end of World War II. The First United States Army launched the operation in March 1945 to capture strategic cities in Nazi Germany and to give the Allies a foothold along the Rhine.

Wikipedia: Operation Lumberjack

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