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Oral history interview with Virgil Myers

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.181 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0578

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    Oral history interview with Virgil Myers

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    Interview Summary
    Virgil Myers, born July 6, 1918, discusses growing up on a farm; working for the Quaker Oats Company; how Quaker Oats paid for him to attend business college; being drafted into the army; going to Leavenworth, KS; going to Camp Hood, Texas; his twelve weeks of basic training; entering the army in May 1944 in the 80th infantry Division, Patton’s Third Army, 317th regiment; sailing to Liverpool, England in September 1944; arriving at Omaha Beach, France on September 27, 1944; crossing the Moselle River; his first war experiences; liberating about 40 Polish prisoners of war; setting up road blocks in Sivry, France where German forces were traveling; being a squad leader; having fellow soldiers taken as prisoners of war or wounded in Sivry; fighting in the Battle of the Bulge; traveling to Luxembourg and later to Weimar, how his division sent a message to the mayor of Weimar, warning that if they did not surrender, they would attack; how the mayor and a woman rode out of the city on a bicycle with a white flag of surrender; how the American regiments were treated coldly by adult German citizens, but were given a warm reception from German children; seeing men in striped outfits walking by and discovering the Buchenwald camp; speaking to a Lithuanian prisoner who had been there four years; learning from the Lithuanian prisoner that the SS guards had deserted the camp when they heard Americans were in Weimar; his memories of Buchenwald; seeing dead prisoners and learning about the crematorium; rounding up prisoners who had wandered away from the camp, so they could get medical care and food; returning to the United States on January 16, 1946; going to Czechoslovakia with the army; returning home; how emotional his wartime experience was; and speaking publicly about his experiences during World War II.
    Interviewee
    Virgil Myers
    Interviewer
    Mr. Stephen A. Mize
    Date
    interview:  2010 August 13

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    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Virgil Myers on August 13, 2010. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in August 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:41
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