Clusterman, You are reading way too much into these simple entries. I summarized these entries so I could ask David Wagner if he remembered playing ball with the 39th D. Company. What I left out from this time frame was the entry where he mentions being driven back to Anzio Beach to see a dentist for his teeth (He may have had teeth pulled). Also, I seriously doubt from when they landed in Anzio in late January of 1944 that they had much time for women to even contract a VD. My grandfather writes of sleeping in the foxholes because he got tired of getting up from the tents to take cover every hour from constant German bombing. The other quick entries from the Jan – April time frame that I’ve already posted here mention him not sleeping or eating much, if at all during 2 to 3 day stretches. If he had time to meet a women while not eating, sleeping and dodging bombs for over 3 months, then more power to him…That shows he is a stronger man then I’d ever be…that’d be the last thing on my mind.
Just my two cents