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Liberated prisoners from a Dachau death march stand outside of a barn in Waakirchen, Germany, where Japanese-American soldiers with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion found them shelter.

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    Liberated prisoners from a Dachau death march stand outside of a barn in Waakirchen, Germany, where Japanese-American soldiers with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion found them shelter.
    Liberated prisoners from a Dachau death march stand outside of a barn in Waakirchen, Germany, where Japanese-American soldiers with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion found them shelter.

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    Liberated prisoners from a Dachau death march stand outside of a barn in Waakirchen, Germany, where Japanese-American soldiers with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion found them shelter.
    Photographer
    George Oiye
    Date
    1945 May 02
    Locale
    Waakirchen, [Bavaria] Germany
    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.

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    Eric Saul
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    Record last modified:
    2003-10-28 00:00:00
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