Author Archives: John

It started raining yesterday afternoon and it has rained all day today.  Mud is knee deep and everyone seems to have a cold.  Boy but this kind of living is miserable.  I mailed my package home today and also wrote … Continue reading →

We may move today.  We got our truck back from the ordnance.  We loaded it up and the sat around.  We lost two men today, Hitchcock and Peacock.  Both hit by the same 88 mm.  Peacock had his arm blown … Continue reading →

We are bivouac just outside of Dragoni. Didn’t get shelled last night and our artillery is really laying down a barrage. The air corp is sending six planes over every 5 minutes to bomb and strafed everything that moves. What … Continue reading →

God O’mighty were we shelled again last night. That tank slipped back in again and seemed to be right in our backyard. We would hear the report of gun and then would hit the ground because baby she was a … Continue reading →

Boy what a night. Some tanks slipped down into the valley and shelled us. It got us up out of bed. All of the fellows went down in the ditch behind our tent and I went down to talk to … Continue reading →

One year ago today we loaded on boats to go over sea’s. The two fellows came in this morning. They had been shot at, Hand grenades thrown at them and stayed in the bushes behind enemy lines all night. When … Continue reading →

Packed up and moved today. We moved about 2 miles and stopped for awhile. They are shelling our area that we are to move into so we had to wait until they stopped. We moved down into a large valley … Continue reading →

We had a good nights sleep last night but you went to bed with the fear of being shelled.  Well they didn’t shell us anymore so they must have knocked out the guns.  We went and got some clothes from … Continue reading →

Wow!  Oh my god!  4:30 AM we came tearing out of the tent as we were being shelled.  The first shell hit and Wellman who was on guard at the time came in and woke us up.  I asked him … Continue reading →