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Guestblog WWII Veteran: Dogfaces in Frankfurt am Main
Joey van MeesenDecember 12, 20185th Infantry Division, WW2 Veteran story2 comments

Edgar Valderrama – 5th Infantry Division, 11th Infantry Regiment, Company C Entering the City We were a scraggly, dusty, sorry looking line of Dogfaces dragging ourselves single file into the first German city I had seen since ‘joining’ the Fifth Infantry Division as a replacement. The city had been rendered an impressive pile of ruins […]

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WWII Veteran Guest Blog: Riding a horse in Czechoslovakia!
Joey van MeesenDecember 8, 20185th Infantry Division, Veterans4 comments

Guestblog by Edgar Valderrama – 5th Infantry Division, 11th Infantry Regiment, Company C. We reached the Danube after the war had ended. They say the Danube appears blue to those in love. I was in love, yet the Danube sure looked like any big muddy river to me. The end of the war had caught […]

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