Thanks for the write up. A cousin of my Dad’s has an interview (transcript) on the web, from some college kid’s project. He was a scout, and talked about how they had it easy - having vehicles, sleeping in the vehicles, etc. (”Sure, we were behind enemy lines, if anybody really knew where the lines were. But it’s not like we were looking for a fight.”)
He mentioned a few times about how bad he felt for the poor guys in the infantry.
He told of the time when he first got there and always had plenty of food because guys were giving away any rations with pork in them.
Once he got into the fight he realized why - the pigs would feed on the corpses on the side of the roads. He quit eating pork too.