Will you go to the Heath?

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>From Weisenburger's Companion, 2nd edition:

"The proleptic jump forward in time takes us to Los Angeles and the Orpheus
Theater, circa 1970. The analeptic jump cut reveals the firing of Rocket
00000, with its sacrifice of Gottfried (God’s peace), which finally occurs
after much anticipation from the Lüneburg Heath, at noon, during Easter of
1945. But in 1945 the Easter holy day fell on April Fool’s. Easter: April
Fool’s. That coincidence had occurred only forty-three times since A.D. 500;
it occurred again in 1956 but would not happen again during the twentieth
century." (p. 10)

"V390.4, B454.1-2, P396.14 Will you go to the Heath?  An important question,
to whomever it is addressed. The Lüneburg Heath is the setting for
Weissmann’s last stand, during Easter/April Fool’s of 1945, in the
concluding episode of GR."(p. 230)

"V690.36-37, B805.15-16, P704.18-19 The fighting is ... at Leyte... Iwo
Jima, moving toward Okinawa  The U.S. Marines invaded Leyte Island, in the
central Philippines, in mid-October 1944. Iwo Jima was next, in February
1945. And extending this northward march of death, Okinawa was invaded on
April 1, Easter of 1945. The main chronological parallel: just as Gottfried
waits out the last terrible weeks of winter for the Easter weekend
sacrifice, Takeshi and Ichizo simultaneously await their calling. Inoguchi
and Nakajima (135-38), Pynchon’s source, report the first, unsuccessful use
of Ohka piloted bombs on March 21, 1945. (p. 209)