{"id":573887485,"date":"2015-01-10T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887485"},"modified":"2015-01-02T21:52:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T03:52:51","slug":"70th-anniv-%e2%80%93-my-great-grandfather%e2%80%99s-war-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/01\/10\/70th-anniv-%e2%80%93-my-great-grandfather%e2%80%99s-war-29\/","title":{"rendered":"70th anniv \u2013 My great-grandfather\u2019s war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago yesterday Tonice, a combat medic in the 137th Infantry Regiment, was wounded in Belgium. Since we don&#8217;t know the details of his removal from the combat zone I did a few extra days of reading through the unit history. On this day, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau finally fell. It had been a tough nut to crack. The Americans had poured more than 100,000 shells on the village, destroying all but one of the buildings, before the Germans were wiped out<\/p>\n<p>So, then, for Jan. 10:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Supported by tanks and tank destroyers, the 137th Infantry pushed ahead against the enemy again on January 10, making a slight gain and capturing the much sought and fought for town of Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, a target of the Regiment for the past thirteen days.<\/p>\n<p>At 1400, the road leading from Lustremange (Bastogne) was choked with enemy vehicles, and an air strike and artillery pounded the column.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=z4haaXfw2Oys.kSx1Xah6ADC0\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/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 to be illustrative. Any errors are mine alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago yesterday Tonice, a combat medic in the 137th Infantry Regiment, was wounded in Belgium. Since we don&#8217;t know the details of his removal from the combat zone I did a few extra days of reading through the unit history. On this day, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau finally fell. It had been a tough nut to [&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-573887485","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\/573887485","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=573887485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887486,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887485\/revisions\/573887486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}