by Max Whitaker | 13 Nov 2004 | Commentary
The first thing I noticed was the odor. It reminded me of the Kuhner Packing Company’s waste being burned in my hometown of Muncie, Indiana. It was a warm morning in April, 1945 — calm and peaceful — unlike the grueling conditions we had recently left behind in Belgium and Luxembourg.
by Wayne Luedke | 22 Apr 2004 | News
Tears well up in his eyes and his voice breaks as Wayne Luedke recalls events of nearly 60 years ago. Luedke, a big man who anyone would think was tough as they come, spent 154 days in combat during World War II. His division fought in three major battles – Central Europe, Rhineland and Battle of the Bulge – and liberated prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
by Cecil G. Davis | 30 Nov 2001 | Personal Accounts
The events from March to May went quickly as we mounted trucks and other vehicles to streak across Germany and end the war. I can recall watching from a hill as our canon companies bombarded a small town to reduce their resistance for our entry. In another town we...