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The Church of Notre-Dame in Saint-Lô, surrounded by rubble. (National Archives)
A battlefield outside Saint-Lô. (Courtesy of the author)
Snuffy Smith and I sit amid the ruins of Saint-Lô. (Courtesy of the author)
The watchtower at Dachau concentration camp, 1945. (National Archives)
The liberation of Dachau in April 1945. I will never forget what we witnessed there. (U.S. Army)
When General Patton passed away suddenly on December 21, 1945, I felt as though I had lost a second father. Here pallbearers carry his casket. (National Archives)
Patton’s funeral was held at Christ Church in Heidelberg, Germany. He was buried at the Third Army Cemetery in Luxembourg.
Even seventy-five years after his death, General Patton looms larger than life. Here the Patton Monument at West Point stands guard over a new generation of soldiers. (Ahodges7)
Placing a stone upon a monument in Kerpen, Germany, dedicated to the residents of that town who died in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of the author)
At Dachau. There isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think about the war. (Courtesy of the author)
About the Authors
FRANK SISSON was born in 1925. In 1944, he deployed to France with the 667th Field Artillery. As a sergeant, he participated in much of the most significant fighting of the later war, including the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he served as a military police inspector in Berlin. He lives in Oklahoma City.
ROBERT L. WISE is the author of more than thirty books, including five covering the World War II period.
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