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Japanese-American troops with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion collect the belongings of three captured German Waffen-SS soldiers.

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    Japanese-American troops with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion collect the belongings of three captured German Waffen-SS soldiers.
    Japanese-American troops with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion collect the belongings of three captured German Waffen-SS soldiers.

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    Caption
    Japanese-American troops with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion collect the belongings of three captured German Waffen-SS soldiers.
    Photographer
    Francis Tazuki
    Date
    1945 May 03 - 1945 May 04
    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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    Photo Source
    Eric Saul
    Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees)

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    Record last modified:
    2004-09-13 00:00:00
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