Branson Van Fleet

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Diary Below

 1945

Feb 6 Moved from position from German border back to Abby Chateau Fontaine. Now we are billited in Chateau for a day or two of rest.

Feb 7 Cleaning up gun. Got rations. Taking showers at Stavelot. Wrote mother.

Feb 8 Left Abby Fontaine for Aachen. Was all nite on road because of bad roads. Froze all nite, slept in a hayloft.

Feb ? Left Aachen for new position 24 miles in Germany. Seen Sigfred line, went in position where 460 pt artillery was so far so good. Lt. Vilesko wounded at CP.

Feb 10 Raining and miserable. Payday today. I drew five thousand eight hundred + 84 franks. Belgium Frances sent 50.00 home. Paid off my Paris debt.

Feb 11 Moved to new position about 1000 yds up. Done without breakfast till 12 o'clock, than ate two meals together and got a headache. John Q birthday, 33 years old. We have nice shack and really need it, for it is snowing and blowing.

Feb 12 Another good day for Hitler, rained all day Stabenow(Raymond) left for Paris. Three eggs this morning. War will be over soon.

Three letters today Flasch is playing his accordian and here we are some setting around the old auxiliary gas tank, we made a stove out of two old tarps and its raining and blowing and am expecting it to fall in any minute. It's a heck of a life and I am getting tired of it. We had church services today.

 Feb 13

Blue Danube a song I hope will last. better day. We did a lot more firing than previous days. Received one letter and Journal( Caldwell newspaper).