Waakirchen is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. At the end of World War II, Japanese American soldiers (Nisei from the...
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eastwards-marching prisoners had passed through Bad Tölz and were nearing Waakirchen, nearly sixty kilometers (37 miles) south of Dachau, several hundred of...
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southwards to, and then turned eastwards from Eurasburg, headed towards Waakirchen where the U.S. Army's 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of segregated Nisei...
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1945, just two kilometers short of the next village to the east of it, Waakirchen. The former SS-Junker school was the base of the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion...
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border were found by troops of the 522nd just west of the village of Waakirchen, and cared for them until dedicated medical personnel took over. Pierre...
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9553 Oberbayernbus Holzkirchen (Oberbayern) – Sachsenkam – Schaftlach – Waakirchen – Reichersbeuern – Bad Tölz – Obergries – Lenggries 9561 Oberbayernbus...
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exposure, exhaustion, and starvation. On May 2, the death march was outside Waakirchen, Germany, near the Austrian border, when the 522nd came across the marchers...
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eastwards towards the Austrian border on 2 May, just west of the town of Waakirchen. Weather at the time of liberation was unseasonably cool and temperatures...
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of Dachau concentration camp and saved survivors of a death march near Waakirchen. Quote: Nearly a century later, "the "Remember Pearl Harbor" 100th Infantry...
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station of Schaftlach and the only railway station in the municipality of Waakirchen in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria. It is located on the Holzkirchen-Lenggries...
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