Left Rimburg Feb. 28 for our drive over Roer. Rita and family very sorry to see us go. Heavy artillery started off about 3 A.M. and then things started moving. A screaming Me Me came over this morn. Saw a Nazi dive bomber drop over the bridge but a lucky A.A. [anti-aircraft] shot hit it in the air. The Air Corp has clear weather today and it looks like they are running a shuttle service. They are over by the 100's. The P-47 shoot up their ammo and bombs and keep coming back for more. They sure must be giving the jerrie convoys hell. The B17's are everywhere in groups of 12. It looks like Cologne and Dusseldorf are getting the worst of it. Crossed over the pontoon bridge at Linnich, there is a lot of damaged equipment laying about. Every town is leveled. Bad has nothing left but rubble. Our first stop is Eidberg where we took over a loft on a farm. This town is most heavily mined that I've ever seen. Cars are laying in every field blown up from mines. Two trucks got it today at the water point when they ran up on a road shoulder. We had to check our own house for booby traps. At present we have about 100 chickens which make some good meals for us not to mention 3 cows and 2 horses. One morning we went into the barn and found one horse missing. He had fallen into a hole and wound up in the cellar. Had to dig all day to get him out. Porkhead moved in with us today.
[In March 2011, Erik Honée, Maastricht (NL) emailed the following: Distance Ede – Elburg approximately 50km. Ede (north of Nijmegen) is about 150km north of Maastricht. Seems unlikely to me that they moved to Ede. (West of Ede (the whole western-Netherlands) was German held territory; they surrendered 5 May 1945. ) Americans in our sector (Maastricht) pushed east into Germany, Siegfriedlinie, Aachen etc.]
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