William Henoch, Sgt, US Army
Burial, Arlington Cemetery
26 September 2017
In the last weeks of the war I traveled around Bavaria a lot. I had an opportunity to go to Munich and stopped at Dachau which I: a) hadn’t realized was there, and b) hadn’t known what it was. When I got there the 45th dividion had already been there. In fact I think General Eisenhower had just recently heard of it and had visited it himself. There are some pictures in the Holocaust museum of Ike touring it.
I must have been there about the same time as he was there. The prisoners were still so happy to see us they cheered and clapped and smiled at us every time they saw a US uniform. Many of them were so starved and skinny they could barely walk. Any doubts you had about what the hell you had been doing getting shot at for all those months in France and Germany disappeared when you saw those people.
~ William Henoch, 2 September 1998
I must have been there about the same time as he was there. The prisoners were still so happy to see us they cheered and clapped and smiled at us every time they saw a US uniform. Many of them were so starved and skinny they could barely walk. Any doubts you had about what the hell you had been doing getting shot at for all those months in France and Germany disappeared when you saw those people.
~ William Henoch, 2 September 1998
Gallery of select images in black and white here.
