[13], The 104th Infantry Division sailed for the Western Front on 27 August 1944. On April 11, 1945 our 104th Division, under command of General Terry Allen, took the fortified town of Nordhausen located some 60 miles southwest of Berlin. their war experiences had instilled. In addition, actor James G. Snitzer was a member of the 104th and died in combat in 1945. The Massacre was the word here, knives and bullets for the males, desert death marches, Sobered and drained each of us eventually left the area, in the words of a poet The 10th Armored Division participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating a subcamp of . Requesting help from the 104th Infantry Division, the 3rd immediately began transporting some 250 ill and starving prisoners to nearby hospital facilities. Battle-hardened men of the 104th wept too. particularly sadistic attention from the SS Troopers. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. of Frenchmen had established a small colony in the large cellar of another The 104th Timberwolf Infantry Division has held a reunion for the past 69 years, and will meet again this year at a celebration . The 193 mile segment from the Rhine to the Paderborn had taken only nine days with captured Wehrmacht vehicles and even barnyard carts (10) The aftermath of these atrocities were what the Timberwolves were to encounter on April 11, 1945. Prisoners assigned to this duty could draw the rations of the dead. emotional impact was heavy on all who were witness to these incidents but Within days, most of the remaining prisoners were sent to Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany. The 104th Infantry Division discovered approximately 3,000 corpses The 91st Infantry Division (famously nicknamed as the "Wild West Division" with a "Fir Tree" as its Division insignia to symbolize its traditional home of the Far West) is an infantry division of the United States Army that fought in World War I and World War II. [3][4] From 1942, parts of the barracks complex had housed forced laborers for Mabag, a company involved in arms production. Galione described the night he ventured off alone, walking for miles on a hunch, to his daughter and the following is an excerpt from her book, "The Journey of Private Galione: How America Became a Superpower": I walked and walked all night. fellow infantrymen teamed up with the 3rd Armored Division beating back the Nazis and gaining a 375 mile penetration deep into the heart of Germany. Despite this, the advance was steady, though paid for in the lives of the 104th Division soldiers. and combat-wise medics, and we thought there was nothing left in the books we The 104th received its new distinctive unit insignia in 2006. Speed would save lives, so we fell into a day of evacuation, We appreciate your comments about this site. found a large German concentration camp for political prisoners, discovering Shephard, Ben. We went downstairs into a filth indescribable, (12) Robert Caggiano, "Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp ? bodies. According to some accounts, soldiers of the 104th Infantry Division killed German civilians in Nordhausen who denied knowledge of the atrocities, believing that . Photographs and newsreel footage of the camp were reported internationally and made Nordhausen notorious in many parts of the world. There are those who now maintain Hitler's holocaust never Russian soldiers had told of a possible Nazi labor camp nearby, but 104thInfantry Division. TIMBERWOLF TRACKS is available through the National Timberwolf Pups Association. never erase from memories. Prisoners from Buchenwald were sent to the area in 1943 to begin construction of a large industrial complex. The 104th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army. Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust. 193-mile segment from the Rhine to Paderborn had taken only nine days with when the 104th arrived. (Accessed Oct. 22, 2009). abandoned to die and their bodies burned at the crematorium within the grounds. The temperature was eight or nine degrees Celsius (46 - 48 degrees Fahrenheit) Now we approached the cellar stairs leading to the French group. Despite their efforts, many survivors died shortly after liberation. word Nordhausen brought us a mixed response of emotions. At 1000 hours, the 684 officers and 1,435 enlisted men, then in the division, marched to the central parade grounds, and stood at attention before the speakers platform - - As the first notes of a bugle sounded the Division Commander's party reached the . continued with Easter Sunday and April Fool's Day practically unnoticed. Division saw and lived a story we shall never forget. [23] In 1961, the division was relocated to Vancouver Barracks, Washington. Casualty figures for the 104th Infantry Division, European theater of operations: The nickname of the 104th Infantry Division, "Timberwolf," originated from the division's insignia, a gray timberwolf. as a top secret satellite camp of Buchenwald in 1943 after British bombers destroyed the main missile research base at Peenemuende on the Baltic Coast. More 'monsieur' very softly, and at my feet, lying as if dead, was a cadaverous man; webmaster@104infdiv.org, Please [18] After regrouping, it advanced to the east and crossed the Weser River on 8 April, blocking enemy exits from the Harz Mountains. But you know, when you are young, you can take an awful lot. After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945. saw them. Prisoners at Dora-Mittelbau had been forced to construct massive tunnels and work in underground factories producing V-2 rockets for the German military. was officially formed by the descendants of the Timberwolves, and is dedicated to continuing the traditions set forth by their fathers and maintaining the legacy of the 104th Infantry Timberwolf Division. The 104th Infantry Division was first constituted on 24 June 1921 as the 104th Division, before being organized and activated in October of that year in Salt Lake City, Utah. 'Concentration Camp.'. (3) Camp Mittelbau Dora was established [29] The 6th Brigade, 104th Division was activated at Aurora, Colorado. This was the only combat duty that the 104th Infantry Division has served during its history. trial commenced on August 7, 1947 at the Dachau internment camp against those hunger and rape for the women and children. Every so often, the floor would be hosed down in order to clean out the excrement. When US forces liberated Dora-Mittelbau in April 1945, only a few prisoners were still in the camp. Photo courtesy of NARA. [17], The prisoners in the worst critical condition were taken to the 51st Field Hospital. Time dulls the impact of events. Click here for order form: Reports indicated that approximately one hundred bodies were cremated per day, of the pile; they had been struggling for five or six days to get out but the A large number of Jews were to come later as the camps in the East were being emptied and slave labor was needed in manufacturing camps such as National Timberwolf Association. Mr. Downs certainly gives us a glowing account of the Timberwolves' bravery and military prowess, but nowhere in the article does he describe the 104th Division's role in liberating camp Mittelbau Dora, or the horrific [1] The division was the first U.S. Army division to be trained to fight in nighttime conditions. Time dulls webmaster@104infdiv.org, TO ORDER CONTACT THE WEBMASTER [14] The division received 9 Distinguished Unit Citations and three campaign streamers during 200 days of combat. [8] By 1952, the division was turning out 1,500 new reservists per training camp. Among these people are Rabbi Gunther Plaut,[36] paleontologist Charles Repenning, Governor of Iowa Leo Hoegh,[37] New York City mayor Ed Koch, New York governor Hugh L. Carey, judge Perry Shields, and generals John R. Deane Jr. and Bryant Moore. His dozen or so photos from Mittelbau-Dora show rows of emaciated corpses in brutal clarity (inexplicably,. September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus pp. The soldiers reacted in shock and disbelief to the evidence of Nazi atrocities. The 104th Infantry Division discovered approximately 3,000 corpses lying around the camp and some 750 emaciated, starving and ill prisoners who had been left behind when the SS evacuated the inmates on death marches. Battalion,104th Infantry Division, was there and explained the impact of the Sleet beat down on the troops, who went for days soaked to the skin and slimy with mud. No one else was tried for crimes committed at the subcamp. Deployed during World War II, the division saw almost 200 . a sadder but wiser man. [17] On 30 October, after five days of continuous operations the division had pushed about 15 miles to within sight of the Mark River and had liberated Zundert, gained control of the Breda-Roosendaal Road, and overrun the Vaart Canal defenses. Today, it is known as the 104th Division (Leader Training) and based at Fort Lewis, Washington, as a training unit of the United States Army Reserve. [14] It landed in France on 7 September 1944. 104th Infantry Division . As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they found tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners in deplorable conditions. [11] The barracks was located near railyards and factories, which were considered military targets;[5] Boelcke-Kaserne had not been marked with a Red Cross symbol. being eaten away by diarrhea and malnutrition. TTY: 202.488.0406, The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. I was exhausted because we had just gotten in from all those miles. here, not in America or Russia." [30] The 7th Brigade, 104th Division activated at Vancouver, Washington. It is primarily responsible for Combat Service Support training for soldiers entering the Ordnance Corps and other related fields. tunnels approximately fifty feet in width and height, connected laterally by history of the 104th Infantry Division, Timberwolf Tracks , relates [14], The division was reactivated on 1 December 1946 in the organized reserves in Portland, Oregon. He was comparatively healthy, as Comments? My legs just In addition, two soldiers from this division were awarded the Medal of Honor for their service in combat. In almost all bunkers and buildings the living were found lying among the dead. On the grounds The Timberwolves travelled across France by train and debarked near the Belgian-Dutch border and waited for word to take part in a new allied offensive, Operation Pheasant, taking the place of the experienced British 49th Infantry Division on the left flank and the Polish 1st Armored Division on the right. In the stress of one of the great, decisive battles in world history, many of these acts failed of proper recognition. The "Timberwolf" division advanced into Belgium by the end of the following month. Schmidt was tried again at the Third Majdanek Trial in 1979 for unrelated crimes, and again acquitted. [24], Two additional provisional brigades were created under the 104th Division in 1999; the 8th Brigade, 104th Division was created at Fort Lewis as a unit for training Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets, and the 4690th US Army Reserve Forces School at Fort Shafter, Hawaii was redesignated as the 4690th Brigade, 104th Division, for service as a multifunctional training unit. scene. building, and would I please bring aid to them. On the afternoon of 3 April and again the next day, the Royal Air Force bombed Nordhausen; the sick barracks was nearly destroyed. That's how I knew I had found something "big" that the Nazis were trying to keep secret. didn't know. He lay dust-covered, where he had nearly and the humidity was ninety percent. You are invited to read the rest The The media of the time described combat in far less gruesome detail. I asked myself, 'Is this what is meant by genocide? Massacre was the word here, "(8) Many prisoners perished due to the effective, the world's first medium-range ballistic missile. Its men were to write sagas of sacrifice, devotion and heroism. (16) National Timberwolf Association, "Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp," 104th Infantry Division, http://www.104infdiv.org/concamp.htm (accessed Oct. 10, 2009). These men were willing to Americans of similar background, on the eye witnessed horror stories of an even more sanguine genocide in Turkey three decades earlier. It began taking on the responsibility of holding training programs for new soldiers of the US Army Reserve. The figure of 3,000 does not include the 2,250 sick and dying prisoners who were sent on an "annihilation transport" to. environment of a clean American ambulance. These men were dedicated to continuing the spirit of fellowship and teamwork from which It was briefly inactivated from 2008 until 2010 when it was . It was two miles in length, with two large skeletons wrapped in skin. On March 1, 2013 the formal organization of the National Timberwolf Association ended and although the formal structure no longer exist, the legacy and traditions With care, he was lifted upon a litter and taken to our waiting The US Army immediately had the prisoners transported out of the camp so that they could be treated by physicians. We saw, at Info@104InfDiv.org. attention and salute us as tears slowly trickled down his cheeks. similar background, on the eye witnessed horror stories of an even more [5] Daily trains shuttled between Dora and Boelcke-Kaserne, bringing incapacitated prisoners and removing the corpses for cremation at Dora. From 1946 until 2008, it was part of the United States Army Reserve. Recognition as a Liberating Unit The majority of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp prisoners were dispersed before liberation. In black forbidding nights and [21] The division then crossed the Saale River and took Halle in a bitter five-day struggle from 15 to 19 April. been crushed by falling walls - yet he displayed remarkable discipline and (and related cases)." After fierce fighting in the Ruhr pocket, it advanced into central Germany and took the Prussian university town of Halle on April 19. Of these, 20,000 had died from various conventional means of military transport for the relentless push to the All categories. If you discover problems, please advise the Webmaster. 5,000 people and injured 35,000 more. US authorities also ordered the local townspeople to bury the dead. Used as an overflow camp for sick and dying inmates from January 1945, numbers rose from a few hundred to over 6000, and the conditions saw up to 100 inmates die every day. There were no toilets and there was no water. Nordhausen was a sub-camp of the concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau. and experiences, formed the National Timberwolf Association on October 19, 1945. horrors of war, but nothing could prepare them for what they would encounter upon liberating the concentration camps Hitler had created with the goal of exterminating those "unworthy of life". here in production of V-1 and V-2 bombs*. Find topics of interest and explore encyclopedia content related to those topics, Find articles, photos, maps, films, and more listed alphabetically, Recommended resources and topics if you have limited time to teach about the Holocaust, Explore the ID Cards to learn more about personal experiences during the Holocaust. Forty percent of the prisoners were Polish, of whom most were thought to be Jews. The 104th Infantry Division participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in 1945. SS doctor Heinrich Schmidt was largely responsible for the inhuman conditions. Hitler's once mighty war - French In all, around 5,000 V2s were launched from sites along the English Channel, killing thousands of British civilians. It was like something was telling me to keep following the trains; and somehow it gave me the strength to keep going. Survivors of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, located near Nordhausen, Germany, April 14, 1945. predominantly Polish slave workers, with some French, conscripted to turn out [18] Eschweiler fell on 21 November and the enemy was cleared from the area west of the Inde River, including Inden by 2 December 1944. 104th Division (Institutional Training), HQ (to include: Headquarters (less detachment), 1st Brigade, 104th Division, 1st Battalion, 414th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 414th Regiment, 1st Battalion, 415th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 415th Regiment, 3d Battalion, 415th Regiment, 1043d Training Detachment, Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 104th Division, 1st Battalion, 104th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 104th Regiment, 3d Battalion, 104th Regiment, 4th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 5th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 1041st Training Detachment, U.S. Army Regional Training Site, Sacramento, Headquarters 4th Brigade, 104th Division, 6th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 7th Battalion, 104th Regiment, 8th Battalion, 104th Regiment, Detachment, 9th Battalion, 104th Regiment, Headquarters, 6th Brigade, 104th Division, 10 Battalion, 104th Regiment, 11th Battalion, 104th Regiment, Headquarters, 7th Brigade, 104th Division, 1st Battalion, 413th Regiment, 2d Battalion, 413th Regiment, 3d Battalion, 413th Regiment, Detachment, Headquarters, 8th Brigade, 104th Division, 3d Battalion, 414th Regiment, 104th Army Band. The Nizkor Project, http://nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/camps/buchenwald/press/reuters.040395 (Oct. 24, 2009). The boot kept digging in when I saw ", "Everything that is now in space had its origins One survivor, Franz Rosenbach was arrested in Austria because he was a gypsy and therefore deemed "racially inferior" by Hitler's Nazi Regime. of beatings and floggings by their inhuman guards. (14) Kenneth T. Downs, "Nothing Stopped the Timberwolves," The Saturday Evening Post (August 17, 1946): 20-43. (11) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "104th Infantry Division Recognized as Liberating Unit," 104th Infantry Division, www.104infdiv.org (accessed Oct. 11, 2009). beginning of the National Timberwolf Pups Association . Additional Nordhausen accounts can be found in our War [18] The division took temporary command of assets from the 69th Infantry Division in early May. The US 104th Infantry and 3rd Armored Division liberated Dora-Mittelbau on April 11, 1945, but found only a few prisoners. [18] During this time, some of the division's assets fell under command of the 1st Infantry Division and the 3rd Armored Division. experience never to be forgotten by those who passed through it. penetration deep into the heart of central Germany. The width of their front was approximately 8,000 yards. east. spared in the Division were rushed to the scene to give medical aid. In one bomb crater lay about twenty Their corpses were found by the US Army units that liberated the camp on 11 April. On April 11, the American 6th Armored Division liberated Buchenwald near Weimar, one of the largest concentration camps constructed in Germany. [26] Meanwhile, the 3rd Brigade, 104th Division,[27] as well as the 4th Brigade, 104th Division both activated at Fort Lawton, Washington. [20] After a period of mopping up and consolidation, it participated in the trap of enemy troops in the Ruhr pocket. news that we were needed to evacuate patients from a concentration camp in one In December, the 104th was forced into defensive positions by German counterattacks, but in March 1945, the division entered the Rhineland and captured the city of Cologne. The article recounts the heroic feats of the 104th as if recapping a college football game. They died like flies.(9). But, the photos that follow They never failed to attain an objective on schedule. It must be noted that although Mittelbau Dora has been listed as a non-Jewish camp; the (6) Richard Murphy, "Survivors of V2 Nazi Slave Camp Mark Liberation," Reuters, April 10, 1995, under "The Nizkor Project," http://nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/camps/buchenwald/press/reuters.040395 (Oct. 24, 2009). building. the now familiar striped uniforms, bodies shrunken, white faces blood drained, among those who can't forget: "Nordhausen was to provide a ghastly traumatic The SS was in charge of the [6] As a unit of the Organized Reserves, the division's subordinate units were spread among the states of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. In November, the unit was already approaching the German city of Aachen. More than a thousand prisoners were killed during the bombing of Nordhausen by the Royal Air Force on 34 April 1945. They were determined that the Jews who had escaped death in the extermination camps would experience the most physically punishing TThe unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor is what prompted most young American men to enlist. shoulder insignia and to honor the memory of those gallant men who perished in battle. would be the weapon that would gain him the upper hand in the war. There were lash marks on many of their scantily covered backs - definite proof [7] The conditions were used to motivate prisoners in other subcamps to work hard lest they be sent to die at Boelcke-Kaserne. Main telephone: 202.488.0400 Some female forced laborers deliberately had children in hopes of being sent home; other children were incidentally conceived from careless or violent sexual relationships in the forced labor camps. accompanied by a horrible dead-rot stench. Along the division's front, the Germans were spread thinly and did not have continuous lines of defense. were scattered throughout the buildings and grounds of the large camp and all Heinrich Schmidt and an SS guard were tried in 1947 in the Dora Trial at Dachau for abuses at Boelcke-Kaserne, but they were acquitted for lack of evidence. The 104th repulsed heavy attacks near Medebach and captured Paderborn on 1 April 1945. [32] In 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure suggestions included the closure of the Vancouver Barracks, and the 104th Division was subsequently relocated to Fort Lewis, Washington. The order was, "You will work." There were lots of accidents, people buried alive under rocks and rubble. that there had been no activity by the trains all night, I was beginning to think that my gut feeling was wrong. TTY: 202.488.0406, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. (2), Private Galione had indeed found something "big". Malnutrition and disease were rampant, and corpses lay unburied. villages like Holzhausen, Niederingelbach, Dalwigsthal, Strasseberbach & The Dora-Mittelbau (also known as Dora-Nordhausen or Nordhausen) camp was established in central Germany near the southern Harz Mountains, north of the town of Nordhausen. The concentration camp prisoners were separated from the forced laborers by an electrified fence topped with barbed wire, and transported to work via a purpose-built railway spur. We saw those on a bank who had been cut down by machine guns In October 1944, the SS made Dora-Mittelbau an independent concentration camp with more than 30 subcamps of its own. prisoners were exposed to gas, noise, and the dust of explosions. The V-2 was worse and more Hundreds With the Allies firmly on the north side of the Mark River, German resistance collapsed. machine was crumbling, but counter attacks and stubborn pockets of resistance, The Journey of Private Galione 415B Liberator of Mittelbau Dora, Concentration Camp Nordhausen, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=104th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)&oldid=1147028721, Infantry divisions of the United States Army, United States Army divisions during World War II, Military units and formations established in 1921, Infantry divisions of the United States Army in World War II, Training divisions of the United States Army, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "Nothing in Hell can stop the Timberwolves". of the history of the 104th Infantry Division & to sign our Guestbook. (1) National Timberwolf Association, "Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp," 104th Infantry Division, http://www.104infdiv.org/concamp.htm (accessed Oct. 10, 2009). With a new addendum, the 2014 edition brings to close the NTA and the human filth. In June of 1945, following the Fedden Mission investigation of the Dora conditions, The United States of America versus Arthur Kurt Andrae et al. At the airport to greet us were Esther Eenhuisen, from the Netherlands, and Vincent De Saedeleer and Ben De Staercke from Belgium. According to some accounts, soldiers of the 104th Infantry Division killed German civilians in Nordhausen who denied knowledge of the atrocities, believing that they were partially responsible. The 104th Division was then assigned the mission of conducting One Station Unit Training, Basic Combat Training, Advanced Individual Training, and Combat Support training. Most of the bodies apparently lay untouched since Upon return, it continued the process of demobilization until 20 December of that year, when it was inactivated. Last edited on 28 November 2022, at 20:14, Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp complex, "Creating a Memory for the German Rocket Program for the Cold War", Color footage of corpses found after liberation, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boelcke-Kaserne_concentration_camp&oldid=1124413574, This page was last edited on 28 November 2022, at 20:14. The 104th Infantry Division formally activated with ceremonies at Camp Adair, Oregon. any serious impressions at the moment. Leon Karalokian of the 104th Signal Company is [6] The concentration camp prisoners were separated from the forced laborers by an electrified fence topped with barbed wire, and transported to work via a purpose-built railway spur. In this large motor shop of gathering at the national reunions, the final Timberwolf reunion was held in September, 2010 and the difficult decision to end the National Timberwolf Association was never occurred. Today, it is known as the 104th Training Division (Leader Training) and based at Fort Lewis, Washington, as a training unit of the United States Army Reserve . heap of ashes each day. While under American command on 16 November 1944, the division went on another offensive in support of Operation Queen, taking Stolberg and pushing on against heavy resistance. [18] It took temporary command of the 60th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Infantry Division. While the bulk of the division moved near Aachen, Germany, elements remained to secure Moerdijk until 7 November, when they were relieved. The Dora-Mittelbau Concentration Camp, comprised of Jews, Poles, Soviets, Romani, political prisoners, and others, suffered under extremely cruel and inhumane conditions. "Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp." was huddled up against a dead comrade, as if to keep warm, having no concept the impact of events. In a caravan of trucks we rushed into a job which proved under the casing were neatly piled about seventy-five bodies, a sight I could Laboring in the dark, unventilated caverns; the prisoners endured back-breaking labor, malnutrition and disease, as well as the random brutality of the guards. Certainly, the Nazi's saw the labor camp as an opportunity to "kill two birds with one stone". The 104th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988. men too weak to move dead comrades from their side. the ground awaiting burial I asked myself, 'Is this what is meant by genocide? In November, the unit was already approaching the German city of Aachen. Many of these scientists, including Wernher von Braun, were recruited by the US as part of Operation Paperclip. - showing him the first kind act in years. TO ORDER CONTACT THE WEBMASTER Malnutrition and disease were rampant, and corpses lay unburied. [40] Bernard Moore was a member of the 104th Timberwolves and went on to be the manager at the Waldorf Astoria Towers in New York, later promoted to the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC.[41]. Stanley Dunn," National Timberwolf Association, www.104infdiv.org (accessed Oct. 22, 2009). walking into a world apart and returning to bring these shadow-men into the death had overtaken them, but some were stacked like cordwood under stairways. [24], In 1996, three more brigades were added to the division's structure. Activated in 1921, the division was created as an infantry unit with a focus on nighttime combat operations. The very few walking skeletons able to stand wandered about dazedly in SS guards hid in air-raid shelters but did not allow the prisoners to seek cover. From where I was standing I could see a hidden tunnel coming out of the side of a mountain. [38] NFL Player Bob Shaw also served with the 104th and was awarded the Bronze Star during World War II. Nor did it forty-eight smaller tunnels. Two miles northwest of Nordhausen a huge underground 107 prisoners from Buchenwald began work on the tunnels with the intent of expanding the existing storage depot into a secret underground missile Washington, DC 20024-2126 Moisture seemed to grip everything and everyone. high-explosive bomb, put into operation a week after D-Day. Nordhausen was liberated by the 104th US Infantry Division on April 12th, 1945. Joining the Battle of the Scheldt, the division moved into defensive positions in the vicinity of Wuustwezel, Belgium on 23 October 1944. As the 104th advanced into Thuringia, the unit overran Nordhausen and the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp on April 11, 1945. Staring at the human debris on The corpses This change reflected a change in the division's mission, specifically training officer and non-commissioned officer candidates in their assigned fields. from the dead. by the hungry and desperate enemy, continued as tongue-twisting towns and [23], In 1967, the division was reorganized. many regarded this information as rumor. There in beds of crude wood I saw antron pippen cause of death, triton football roster,

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