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Clarence Matsumura, a Japanese-American soldier in the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion in Germany, poses next to a 522 EMS club sign.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 45866
Clarence Matsumura, a Japanese-American soldier in the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion in Germany, poses next to a 522 EMS club sign. Matsumura was the soldier who liberated Jewish survivor Solly Ganor from a death march in Waakirchen.

Clarence Matsumura, a Japanese-American soldier in the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion in Germany, poses next to a 522 EMS club sign.

Matsumura was the soldier who liberated Jewish survivor Solly Ganor from a death march in Waakirchen.

Date
May 1945
Locale
Germany
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberators
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul

About This Photograph

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)
Provenance: Bob Ikeda
 
Record last modified: 2021-05-28 00:00:00
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