20th Armored Division
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| Click for larger format Documents from the CMH identifying the D Company, and Assault Gun Platoon, 27th Tank Battalion, 20th AD attached to Company F, 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division at Dachau on April 29, 1945. |
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for larger format Soldiers of Headquarters Company, 220th Armored Engineers Battalion. This may be in the SS facility near the boxcars. The bodies may be of SS guards killed by soldiers of the 45th. 20th AD shoulder patch is circled on the soldier on the right. Photo from the collection of the late George Stuber, Headquarters Company, 220th Armored Engineers Battalion. |
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for larger format Soldiers of Headquarters Company, 220th Armored Engineers Battalion at the boxcars with dead Buchenwald inmates. 20th AD shoulder patch is circled on the soldier on the left. Photo from the collection of the late George Stuber, Headquarters Company, 220th Armored Engineers Battalion. |
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for larger format 20th AD soldiers at the Dachau SS barracks. As the soldiers are wearing helmets, the photo appears to be from April 29, 1945 rather than from a postwar GI tourism. GIs wee not wearing helmets while on postwar GI tourist visits. The handwritten caption "Hitlers (sic) office) is in error. |
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![]() Click for larger format ORANGE CIRCLE LOWER LEFT: Approximate location of unlocked and unguarded gate on rail line where research indicates units of the 20th AD entered Dachau |
![]() Click for larger format Train near the unlocked and unguarded gate where research suggests the units of the 20th Armored Division entered Dachau. The train contained bodies of dead Buchenwald inmates. These are among the dead bodies that 20th AD soldiers report seeing along with bodies inside buildings in the concentration camp. Date and unit unknown. |
| Click for larger format Research suggests that D Company, and Assault Gun Platoon, 27th Tank Battalion entered the SS training facility through the unlocked and unguarded gate ORANGE CIRCLE LOWER LEFT then proceeded to concentration camp along the dotted line. The dotted line is the roue units of the 42nd entered Dachau. |
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"20th Armored Division and the
Dachau Concentration
Camp" by former 20th Armored Division Association President
Arnold Rist , Undated document
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