[ken5050]

I'm pretty sure that some elements of the 45th were involved in the relief of Bastogne, during the Battle of the Bulge, a few months earlier. It was then that the massacre of some 100 GIs at Malmedy. I have no doubt that while what they saw at Dachau was horrific, knowing what the Germans had just done to their fellow GIs was instrumental in their actions.

The post war world would have been fascinating had Patton lived.

[Rockpile]

Worked with an ex Army lifer whose dad was a Regular Army mustanger officer. The dad saw a colonel order the execution of a couple of dozen Wehrmacht peons during the drive towards the Rhine.

The Americans and British did not make murdering prisoners an art form like the Russians, Germans and Japanese did but it still happened sometimes.

[colorado tanker]

See 55. Missed you.