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US Army 1943-1945, European theatre (France, Germany); drafted during first year at Duke University; assigned to a new unit of the 63rd Infantry Division, the 63rd Quartermaster Company as a truck driver; compared the home front of WWII to subsequent wars; in depth recollection of training at Camp Breckenridge, Camp Blanding, and Camp Van Dorn; discusses fighting in Alsace and at the Siegfriend Line, and crossing the Rhine River; transferred to the 36th Infantry Division and worked in Purchasing and Contracting; recounts his experiences in post-war Germany: at the Dachau concentration camp and the Nuremberg war crime trials; describes relations with the Germans. OHP Control Number 1706