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The 522nd Field Artillery Battalion liberated Dachau death march prisoners near the town of Waakirchen. Here they try to find the prisoners shelter.
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Clarence Matsumura's Go For Broke photograph album.
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522nd Field Artillery Battalion at the Eagle's Nest / Kehlsteinhaus
Soldiers of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion posing at Hitler's retreat near Berchtesgaden, known as the Eagle's Nest in English and Kehlsteinhaus in German.
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Volunteers for the Military Intelligence Service
Caption in album: "Volunteers please / Just prior to V-J day came a survey of Volunteers was made for the Camp Savage (later Fort Snelling) language school for men to ship to go to school and on to Japan to fight. Here the two above photos show as the volunteers …
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The 522nd Field Artillery Battalion liberated Dachau death march prisoners near the town of Waakirchen.
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522nd Field Artillery Battalion soldiers departing
Caption in album: "522nd FA Bn. Donauworth / As all good things must, end came by the point system the old timers made a departure for a well deserved home and a discharge. The new reinforcements and all the law pointers were."
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522nd Field Artillery Battalion soldiers looking out from the interior of the Eagle's Nest / Kehlsteinhaus
Soldiers of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion posing at Hitler's retreat near Berchtesgaden, known as the Eagle's Nest in English and Kehlsteinhaus in German.
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