{"id":573887289,"date":"2014-12-16T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887289"},"modified":"2014-12-17T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T04:12:07","slug":"70th-anniv-my-great-grandfathers-war-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/70th-anniv-my-great-grandfathers-war-3\/","title":{"rendered":"70th anniv &#8211; My great-grandfather&#8217;s war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and my great-grandfather was there, with the 137th Infantry Regiment. We don&#8217;t know which company, or even which battalion he was in, because he kept all of those experiences to himself, so this is only a regimental overview with some movements down to the company level. I pulled a few things together for his son, my grandfather, and the anniversary is a great time to revisit it. <\/p>\n<p>So, then, for Dec. 16:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 3rd Battalion again attacked the well-defended enemy positions in the forest and regained a portion of the lost ground. U.S. air support bombed and strafed Bliesmengen and the woods to the east of it. The 1st Battalion was protecting the Division&#8217;s left flank in Sarreguemines and along the Blies River pocket. The 2nd Battalion had Company G across the Blies protecting the rear flank of the 3rd Battalion, while E Company was aiding the 1st Battalion. <\/p>\n<p>The 3rd Battalion launched its attack into the woods in the morning, meeting fierce resistance. <\/p>\n<p>The 1st Battalion was relieved in the evening and the 2nd Battalion were at night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small>View <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=209756731177001235595.0004d2a57dab2ce35e834&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=49.145278,7.12575&amp;spn=0.030936,0.05785&amp;t=m&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Tonice in the Bulge<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"527\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=209756731177001235595.0004d2a57dab2ce35e834&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=49.145278,7.12575&amp;spn=0.030936,0.05785&amp;t=m&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>View <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=209756731177001235595.0004d2a57dab2ce35e834&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=49.145278,7.12575&amp;spn=0.030936,0.05785&amp;t=m&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Tonice in the Bulge<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This information is derived from the unit history, found <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coulthart.com\/134\/137chapter-3.htm\">here<\/a> and <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coulthart.com\/134\/137chapter-4.htm\">here<\/a> and from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.137thinfantry.org\/history.htm\">this unit overview<\/a>. These markers are rough estimates and are meant only to be illustrative. Any errors are mine alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and my great-grandfather was there, with the 137th Infantry Regiment. We don&#8217;t know which company, or even which battalion he was in, because he kept all of those experiences to himself, so this is only a regimental overview with some movements down to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,32,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-history","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887290,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887289\/revisions\/573887290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}