This is a copy of just the narrative portion of the pamphlet: “The Seventy-First came to Gunskirchen Lager” produced by the 71st Infantry of the US Army in May, 1945. After their liberation of an Nazi concentration camp in Austria. There are 4 sections, after Maj. Gen Wyman’s foreward: THE AMERICAN’S HAVE COME AT LAST…
“AND AFTERWARDS..” BY CPL. JERRY TAX We pulled into Wels, Austria, that morning in two jeeps and a three quarter ton radio truck. In the lead jeep were Colonel Augustus Regnier, C. O., 66th Infantry Regiment, his driver and his machine-gunner, in the next were four MPs, and then came four of us in our…
“THE STATES HEARD” Major Cameron Coffman, Fort Thomas, Ky., Public Relations Officer of the 71st Division, visited Gunskirchen Lager on the afternoon of May 4, 1945, shortly after its liberation by American troops. The news release he wrote about the Gunskirchen Lager Liberation, which was published in several United States papers, is printed below in…
Section 2: Gunskirchen Lager “THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED” By Captain J. D. Pletcher It was V-E Day. While the world celebrated, the weary men of Company “K”, 5th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, commanded by Capt. Horace S. Berry of Spartansburg, S. C., faced the task of cleaning up Gunskirchen Lager, a German concentration camp near Lambach,…
To: Austrian Embassy 3524 international Court, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008 Att: Honorable Helmut Tuerk, Ambassador NOV. 5, 1997 Dear Mr. Tuerk, My name is Mason Dorsey. I am a veteran of the 71st Division of General George Pattons’ 3rd Army. Recently, I learned that a monument is to be erected on the site of…