9 March Moved to Gelenberg.
10 March Moved to Kurrenberg.
12 March Moved to Bassenheim. Moved again to Gierschnach.
14 March Moved to Metternich.
15 March Moved to Hatzenport.
16 March Moved to Mermuth.
17 March Moved to Norath. Supported a cavalry group.
19 Marsh Moved to Bichtelbach. Moved again to Zotzenheim.
20 March Movpd to Worstadt. Moved again to Udenheim.
21 March Moved to Klein Winternheim. Fired on ferry, and tugboats on the Rhine River.
22 March Moved to Drais.
23 March Moved to Dienheim. Across the Rhine River on a pontoon bridge. Sweated out enemy
planes, ack-ack fire and artillery. Want a relief to leave this position.
25 March Moved 3 times. To Wolfskehlen to Weiterstadt and finally to Erzhausen.
26 March Again we moved 3 times. To Egelsbach, Gotzenhain, and Heusenstamm. Knocked out
2 AA guns, destroyed 2 artillery pieces and set fire to a flak tower.
27 March Moved to Lammerspiel. Fired in support of the Main River crossing operation.
28 March Moved to Mittelbuchen. No firing done.
29 March Moved to Heldenbergen. No firing done.
30 March Moved to Enzheim, Bergheim and finally to Merkenfritz helping guard the division
right flank.
31 March Moved to Shlitz (just the name made us homesick for a taste of an American beverage
of the same name). Moved on to Queck.
2 April Moved to Neukircken. Convoy was strafed. Moved again to Eromannrode and finally to
Ausbach.
3 April Moved to Unterbreizbach. The 537 AA A gets on enemy plane as it flies over the
battalion area.
4 April Moved to Dorndorf. ‘‘B” Battery convoy shelled. Moved to Leimbach and finally to
Allendorf.
5 April Moved to Bad Liebenstein.
6 April Moved to Bernbach.
7 April Moved to Zella Mehlis. Helped repel a counterattack.
8 April Moved to Heidersbach.
9 April Moved to Gehlberg. The battalion gets shelled heavily. ‘‘B’’ Battery displays heroism
and several earned Bronze Stars. Several had Purple Hearts forced on them.
10 April Moved to Stutzerbach. Fired on Ilmenau, Gehren, and Roda.
11 April Moved to Gehren.
12 April Moved to Mankenbach. Then over the mountains to Volkmansdorf.
13 April Moved to Schlaga. Moved again to Burglemnitz.
14 April Moved to Ebersdorf.
15 April Moved to Frossen.
16 April Moved to Gefell and then on to Krebes.
17 April First shot fired into Czechoslovakia.
18 April Moved to Haidt and to Doberlitz.
19 April Moved to Kuhschwitz, Pilgramsreuth, and Schonwald.
20 April Moved to Ober Weissenbach. Moved again to Thiersheim.
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