Excerpts from My Father’s Fight of Honor (from the diary of William Glenn Griffin) my dad (published Rebecca Jones)

 

Page 78

February 19, 1945 It is cloudy again, so Hitler has plastered us with buzz bombs all day. Some hit the lower end of town.

 

Page 80

February 25 and 27, 1945

The 1^st and 9^th armies crossed the Roer River a few days ago and are making progress. The 104^th Division was first to cross.

Yesterday a rocket hit a candy factory here, killing 800 girls. General Lee was here again and he borrowed my jeep. Yanks are only 11 miles from Cologne now.

General George Patton – Better to fight for something than live for nothing.