{"id":1143,"date":"2015-06-20T07:53:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2017-01-08T22:05:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:05:39","slug":"in-wbs-footsteps-jebsheim-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"In WB&#8217;s  footsteps &#8211; Jebsheim, France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dad entered WWII in December 1944, through Marsailles, France. In January 1945 his unit participated in&nbsp;some of the fiercest&nbsp;house-to-house fighting of the war&nbsp;in Jebsheim, France. Such an unassuming place today, with&nbsp;approximately&nbsp;1200 residents, and hardly anyone out and about on a gray Sunday morning. To know&nbsp;900 soldiers (500 German and 400 Allied) lost their lives here&nbsp;is sobering.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1143 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WB-WWII.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2452\" height=\"1506\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WB-WWII.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WB-WWII.jpg 2452w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WB-WWII-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WB-WWII-1024x629.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-845'>\n\t\t\t\tWB 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In January 1945 his unit participated in&nbsp;some of the fiercest&nbsp;house-to-house fighting of the war&nbsp;in Jebsheim, France. Such an unassuming place today, with&nbsp;approximately&nbsp;1200 residents, and hardly anyone out and about on a gray Sunday morning. To know&nbsp;900 soldiers (500 German and 400 Allied) lost their lives here&nbsp;is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=1143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In WB&#8217;s  footsteps &#8211; Jebsheim, France&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}