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Cpl. Keith Clark Carter
US Army Coy. F 407th Regiment
from:Cleveland, Texas
I was appointed First Scout in Co. F of our battalion, 407th Regiment, 102nd Division. My ship left for Europe from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. We disembarked in September at Cherbourg and trained (mostly long marches for endurance) near the town of St. Pere d'Eglise. I was captured by the Germans on 2nd December 1944 while taking 3 prisoners I helped capture during a pre-dawn attack against Flossdorf, a town on the Roer River. I was interrogated by a German officer, anything I questioned, such as persecution of the Jews, was "European politics, which you don't understand". His non-English speaking companion asked the interrogator about the session, and he told him I was "sehr intelligent". I was awarded a Bronze Star.