Tahae Sugita (right), a Japanese-American soldier with the 522nd Field Artillery battalion, stands next to a concentration camp survivor he has just liberated on a death march from Dachau.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 07727

Photographer: George Oiye
Date: 1945 May 02
Locale: Waakirchen, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberators
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul

Event History: The 522nd Field Artillery operated as an independant battalion in the southern German campaign in the spring of 1945. The enlisted men of the battalion were all Japanese Americans from the west coast and Hawaii. Units of this battalion liberated prisoners on one of the death marches from Dachau near the town of Waakirchen on May 2, 1945.
Keyword: BLANKETS
CLOSE-UPS
DEATH MARCH SURVIVORS
JAPANESE-AMERICANS
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
Photo Source: Eric Saul

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