Oral History Interview with Joel D. Alderson, April 10, 2007
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Transcript of an oral interview with Joel Alderson and his wife Nila. He discusses going to boot camp in Texas, shipping off to France in early 1945 and working as an engineer, constructing bridges and demolishing German fortifications for the Army as it made it's way through Germany, blowing up Hilter's bunker in Salzburg, Austria and using bulldozers to cover piles of dead Jews the Germans left in the open (likely at Dachau). He ancedotes about meeting Eisenhower, carrying fuel up to Patton's…
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Date:
April 10, 2007
Creator:
Alderson, Joel D.
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation