James Frank Dorris, Jr. |
James Dorris, 2003 | World War II, 1939-1946
Army
Company A, 222nd Regiment, 42nd Division (Rainbow)
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (induction); Fort McClellan, Alabama (basic training); Fargo, North Dakota; Marseilles and Ingelheim, France; Germany; Austria
Private First Class
Chattanooga, TN
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James Dorris came late to the European Theater in World War II, but he wasn't spared one of the most horrifying experiences that any American soldier had in that conflict. He and his unit landed in southern France late in 1944 and were in a captured chateau on the Rhine River by New Year's Eve. But in the spring of 1945, they were assigned to liberate the concentration camp at Dachau, an experience for which none of them was prepared.
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