{"id":8011,"date":"2019-11-26T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T19:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2019-11-26T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T19:02:32","slug":"may-june-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=8011","title":{"rendered":"May-June 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The 10<sup>th<\/sup> Army and two Marine divisions continued to wage a close, bitter battle with the Japanese for possession of Okinawa, while Air Corps&#8216; B-29s bombed the mainland of Japan, burning thousands of civilians to death with incidental damage to military targets. The point system was officially announced, and the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Armored Division moved into Berlin and its black market to earn themselves the title of the &#8222;Million-Dollar Division.&#8220; Sitting on the banks of the Elbe, the 82<sup>nd<\/sup> Airborne heard the Russians shoot and rape the Germans and watched the dead women float by in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014David Kenyon Webster,\u00a0<em>Parachute Infantry<\/em>, (New York: Dell Publishing, 1994), 317.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th Army and two Marine divisions continued to wage a close, bitter battle with the Japanese for possession of Okinawa, while Air Corps&#8216; B-29s bombed the mainland of Japan, burning thousands of civilians to death with incidental damage to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=8011\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}