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[[War Diaries (nonfiction)|War Diary]] quotations for [[May 5]].
[[War Diaries (nonfiction)|War Diary]] entries for [[May 5]].


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=== May 1945 ===
== Diaries ==


[The quotation below is an excerpt from diary notes by Sisi Wilczek (now Countess Geza Andrassy) from early May 1945. These notes appear in ''Berlin Diaries 1940-1945'' by [[Marie Vassiltchikof (nonfiction)|Marie Vassiltchikof]], known to her friends as Missie.
=== Garwood Dains: May 5, 1918 ===


General Patton's U.S. Third Army reached Gmunden on 4 May 1945; the following day saw the surrender of all German forces in Bavaria. Four days later, on 8 May, the war in Europe came formally to an end.]
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One must see these trenches to realize what they are like. In our sector the mud and water was up to our knees & if you raised your head over the top a Boche sniper would take a shot at it ...
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—Corporal [[Garwood Dains (nonfiction)|Garwood Dains]], Somewhere in France
One day an American jeep with two officers drove up to the Könininvilla.  Since neither the estate manager, Herr Stracke, nor Fräulein Schneider spoke any English, Missie, who was working in the Cumberland Hospital across the park, was summoned to interpret.  The two American officers visibly took an instant interest in Missie and, allegedly because the Russians were advancing and they wished to protect her from them, tried to persuade her to drive away with them.  She refused, saying that she wouldn't leave me in the lurch; it was agreed that they would return in a couple of days.  Meanwhile they forbade us to leave the house.  Two days later they re-appeared and again urged this time both of us to go away with them.  We refused.  Whereupon they again forbade us to leave the house, saying that otherwise we would be shot. We now realised that the story about the allegedly approaching Russians was a sham and that they had something quite different in mind.  Luckily we never saw them again.


* http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/wwibibliography.htm


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=== Duane Nelson: April 1, 1944 ===
 
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Well things really started happening about 0400 this morning and we are near the sea. ... The Nips made a landing about 2,000 yards from our position and all hell broke loose with machine guns, the destroyer and amphibians. We got our gear ready again and pulled out at about 4:30 to a place about 1,000 yards from the beach. We are still having heavy fire and it was rugged going. Getting close up you could see the tracers going every which way. At approximately 0600 we got shelled by Jap artillery. So many of their shells were duds and boy our fellows were sure thankful of that.
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—[[Duane Nelson (nonfiction)|Duane Nelson|Duane "Swede" Nelson]] served in the Marines from 1943 to February 1946, and he participated in some of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater. He kept three small diaries documenting his experiences.
 
* [https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/jul/29/excerpts-from-nelsons-wwii-diaries/ Excerpts from Duane Nelson’s WWII diaries] @ spokesman.com
 
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
 
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
 
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
 
* [[Garwood Dains (nonfiction)]]
* [[Duane Nelson (nonfiction)]]
* [[War (nonfiction)]]
* [[War Diaries (nonfiction)]]
 
== External links ==
 
* http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/wwibibliography.htm
* [https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/jul/29/excerpts-from-nelsons-wwii-diaries/ Excerpts from Duane Nelson’s WWII diaries] @ spokesman.com
 
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War Diary entries for May 5.

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Garwood Dains: May 5, 1918

One must see these trenches to realize what they are like. In our sector the mud and water was up to our knees & if you raised your head over the top a Boche sniper would take a shot at it ...

—Corporal Garwood Dains, Somewhere in France

Duane Nelson: April 1, 1944

Well things really started happening about 0400 this morning and we are near the sea. ... The Nips made a landing about 2,000 yards from our position and all hell broke loose with machine guns, the destroyer and amphibians. We got our gear ready again and pulled out at about 4:30 to a place about 1,000 yards from the beach. We are still having heavy fire and it was rugged going. Getting close up you could see the tracers going every which way. At approximately 0600 we got shelled by Jap artillery. So many of their shells were duds and boy our fellows were sure thankful of that.

—Duane Nelson|Duane "Swede" Nelson served in the Marines from 1943 to February 1946, and he participated in some of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater. He kept three small diaries documenting his experiences.

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