{"id":573887487,"date":"2015-01-11T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887487"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T04:03:27","slug":"70th-anniv-%e2%80%93-my-great-grandfather%e2%80%99s-war-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/01\/11\/70th-anniv-%e2%80%93-my-great-grandfather%e2%80%99s-war-30\/","title":{"rendered":"70th anniv \u2013 My great-grandfather\u2019s war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of our tracking the 137th Infantry Regiment&#8217;s movements through Europe 70 years ago during the coldest winter anyone could recall. The Battle of the Bulge had just begun to wind down. My great-grandfather Tonice, a combat medic in the 137th had been wounded on the 9th. Since we don&#8217;t know when he was evacuated, I looked through two more days, just to see what would happen next. The 137th finally came off the line today, they&#8217;d finally get some rest. <\/p>\n<p>So, then, for Jan. 11:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On one of its coldest days the 137th attacked again, suffering heavy casualties, the majority being from the 2nd Battalion in taking the town of Lutremange (on the outskirts of Bastogne). <\/p>\n<p>Replaced by units on both sides, the 137th went into reserve duty for a week before returning to Metz. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Feel free to click around in the other thumbnails to read about other days.  <\/p>\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>. He never talked about the war and his quiet choice means that these markers are rough estimates, meant only to be illustrative. Any errors are mine alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last day of our tracking the 137th Infantry Regiment&#8217;s movements through Europe 70 years ago during the coldest winter anyone could recall. The Battle of the Bulge had just begun to wind down. My great-grandfather Tonice, a combat medic in the 137th had been wounded on the 9th. Since we don&#8217;t know when he [&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-573887487","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\/573887487","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=573887487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887488,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887487\/revisions\/573887488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}