The Cunard Liner Ship HMS Aquitania on which Felix sailed to Europe | |
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1940: In Wellington, New Zealand,
loading troops Felix would have experienced a similar scene boarding in New York City in 1944. |
Cut away drawing of the Aquitania |
Dachau
Links
Felix Sparks' (commander of the 3rd Battalion, 157th Regiment, 45th Division) report on the liberation of Dachau.
Remembrances of Dachau by men transferred in June, 1945 to the 45th Signal Company from the 103d Signal Company, 103d Infantry Division. Dachau today: virtual tour Dachau site with extensive links |
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SS Camp Gate Site of SS gate now Gate into SS compound at Dachau during occupation |
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Carlo D'Este
Decision in Normandy FROM THE PUBLISHER: The battle for Normandy was the most complex and daring military operation in the history of modern Warfare. Two years of intense, detailed planning reached its successful conclusion when the Allied forces took the beaches on D-Day. But the seventy-six-day campaign that followed, the Allies' crucial bid for a toehold in western Europe, was one of the bloodiest of the war, and its true story has been concealed in myth. Step-by-step the reader is taken through the Normandy campaign from the earliest days after Dunkirk when Churchill first considered the idea of a cross-Channel invasion of France, to the Key battles that determined that outcome, with maps explaining clearly the strategy and logistics of each battle. This is military history at its most dramatic, with a cast of characters that includes Montgomery, Rommel, Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower. Decision in Normandy is destined to become the definitive account of a campaign Rommel described as "a terrible blood-letting" and whose outcome became the decisive turning point for the Allied victory. |
Focke-Wulf Fw190D-9 JV44 Würgerstaffel “Red 1,” | |
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ME
262 from München-Riem, April, 1945 (in German). |
45th Infantry Division | |
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"The 45th: The Story of the 45th Infantry
Division." Paris,
1945. "One of a series of G.I. Stories of the
Ground, Air and Service Forces in the European Theater of
Operations issues by the Stars and Stripes, a publication
of the Information and Education Division, Special and
Information Services ETOUSA." This is from Felix's collection and covers the period immediately prior to Felix's transfer to the 45th, from July, 1943 to December, 1944. In HTML format. In Adobe PDF format. Click on link to download and install Adobe Reader ![]() |
Army Center for Military History Combat Chronicle Order of Battle |
Bill
Mauldin's "Willy and Joe" Before Felix was
transferred to the 45th Infantry Division, Bill Mauldin
was reassigned to cover the campaigns in northwest
Europe in which Felix served. Bill Mauldin illustrated
what Felix saw and experienced.
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Bill Mauldin article from
June, 1945 edition of Stars and Stripes. From the
collection of Felix A. Cizewski. |
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"Just give me the aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart." |
A selection of Bill Mauldin's World War II cartoons from "Stars and Stripes". | |
A selection of "Willy and Joe" cartoons from the 5th Armored Division Association. | |
From "Bill Mauldin beyond Willy and Joe: An online tribute drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress: Mauldin at War, 1943-1945" | |
A selection of "Willy & Joe" cartoons from PBS "American Experience: War Letters." |
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