Bruce Donald Fenchel |

Bruce Donald Fenchel, Ft. Knox, Kentucky | World War II, 1939-1946
Army
8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, 3rd Army
Fort Knox, Kentucky; Camp Bowie, Texas; Chippenham, England; European Theater
Private First Class
Strawberry Point, IA
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Beginning at age eighteen, Bruce Fenchel fought all five of the major battles of Europe under the command of General Patton. Blasted in a tank explosion at Chaumont, he hung onto a gas truck with frozen hands long enough to be dropped at a Belgian family home and pub, where he was hidden in the attic. After fierce battles at Bastogne and the Rhine River, he witnessed terrifying sites of torture apparatus and death when his division liberated the Ohrdurf Concentration Camp.
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