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Sources:

522nd Field Artillery Battalion

Fire for Effect : A Unit History of the 522 Field Artillery Battalion by The Historical Album Committee of The 522 Field Artillery Battalion of the 442 Regimental Combat Team

April & May 1945 522nd FAB Journals

Attachments and Detachments

U.S. Army Center of Military History :Order of Battle of the US Army - WWII - ETO
Artillery Battalions in World War II  C J Kelly Owlcation Dec. 17, 2018

Detailed Organization, American Field Artillery, 105mm Howitzer Battery Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 15 September 1943 Table of Organization 6-167

Department of Defense definition of displacement: Movement of a unit from one position to another without discontinuing performance of its primary function. From the Military Factory


12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division

4th Infantry Division Documents: April 15 to May 8, 1945 After Action Reports  and G-2 Periodic Reports No. 268, 269, 270, April 28-30, 1945

Liberating Unit Histories and Insignia
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


610th Tank Destroyer Battalion

12th Armored Division


Subcamps

List of Dachau subcamps

Ausburg-Haunstetten Subcamp

Augsburg-Haunstetten

Dachau Concentration Camp - Satellite Camps -, Part 1 by Zdenek Zofka.
Includes map of the site of the Ausburg-Haunstetten subcamp

Augsburg-Pfersee Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 Vol. 1, Part A. PDF page 454/Document page 494

https://robinwhitlock1966.wixsite.com/forgotten-horrors/bad-tolz

Horgau Subcamp

Kaufering IV (Lechfeld) Subcamp
Lechfeld Subcamp

Turkenfeld Subcamp

Death March

g. Was geschah in Waakirchen? (What happened in Waakirchen?)

From: "Todesmarsch von Dachau" ("Death March from Dachau")

By Dr. Friedrich Schreiber

The Death Marches from the Dachau Camps to the Alps during the Final Days of World War II in Europe by Eliezer Schwartz

Number of Rescued Prisoners at Waakicheren

Former Dachau prisoner Erich Röhl, who was liberated in Waakirchen, wrote in his report "The March of Silence and Annihilation": " On the morning of May 2nd... SS disappeared... Arrival in Waakirchen at 11 a.m.... 2:15 p.m. The Americans arrive. May 4th. March back to Bad Tölz. The entire transport still consists of 3,000 prisoners, of which 990 are Germans. 100 are Russians. " (KZGSD AN 25824).

The priest of Waakirchen, who cared for and looked after the liberated prisoners for three days and therefore had to have a precise overview, made three important statements or omissions in his written report to the cardinal: 2,700 prisoners were liberated in Waakirchen.

Google Translate of German from
g. Was geschah in Waakirchen? (What happened in Waakirchen?)

From: "Todesmarsch von Dachau" ("Death March from Dachau")

By Dr. Friedrich Schreiber


The Ethnicity of the Rescued Subcamp Inmates


May 1, 1945 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Regiment Death March Rescue

141st Infantry Regiment Association, Peek, Jr., Clifford H. ed., Five Years, Five Countries, Five Campaigns. . . with the 141st Infantry Regiment, Chapter XIV The Last Ten Days of the War, Munich, 1945
https://www.texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/36division/archives/141/141110.htm

Deieterle, Master Sergeant Robert D., Schonburg, Staff Sergeant Herman L., and Harvin, Techniain 4 Harry, L., Operations in Germany and Austria, 141st Infantry Regiment May 1 to 10, 1945, page 3.

Schreiber
, Dr. Friedrich e. Verwirrungen zwischen Eurasburg und Beuerberg; Informationslucken zum Todesmarsch von Dachau
https://www.gedenken-im-wuermtal.de/files/wtn/partner/gedenken-im-wuermtal/archiv/6.2.2.html

Schwartz
, Eliezer, The Death Marches from the Dachau Camps to the Alps during the Final Days of World War II in Europe. page 144

Researchers

Leonard H. Cizewski

Govan Yee


Bill Wright, son of the 522nd's Executive Officer, the late Major William P. Wright,

David Wayne Miles: Son of Ralph Private First Class Jacob Miles, Radio Section, HQ and HQ Company, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division

Isami Yoshihara: Isami Yoshihara's brother served in the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Infantry Regiment alongside the 45th ID in Italy where he was wounded.

Rich Mintz

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