121004 PFC. Donald Max "Bud" Patton US Army 3rd Battalion 414th Infantry Regiment from:Los Angeles, California, USA My father Bud Patton, would never speak of the war to me, except the funny stories. His unit found and raided a costume shop. They donned the various costumes and were marching down the road when a high ranking officer in a jeep happened by. He was stationed in, according to his DD214 as it currently known, the Rhineland, Northern France and Central Europe.
After his death to cancer in 1987, my mother informed me that he had spoke very little of the war to her except to tell her that he was a liberating American soldier in one of the death camps for the Jews. He did mention seeing a young and once beautiful woman who was floating naked and pickled in a large life sized container of some sort. This sight must have greatly impacted him. I am attempting to document as much as I can for a story I am writing in his honor and for the men who also participated in this story.
I am trying to track down where this might have been. The only info I can come up with the 414th that was assigned to help out with the liberation of Nordhausen and the Dora-Mittlebau camps in Germany. Does anyone have any information that could help?
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