Marion: Many thanks from all of us from the 3rd Inf Div for having the guts to post that
article. We have been trying for years to get the truth told. Yes, I was a member of the 3rd Bn. 7th Reg. who entered B.Gaden about 4 P.M. on May 4th '45. As a matter of fact Lt. Sherman Pratt and myself are usually in E mail contact even yet. Sherm Pratt
just had major hip surgery and is recovering. One great person by the way, and lives in Arlington VA. ( he stayed in the Army and retired as a Lt. Col) . Another friend, Lt. Russ Cloer, Plt. leader of the 7th Reg. I&R platoon who was also there then is another
one who E mails back and forth to me also. I am going to try to get Russ to join up here but he has just took a bad turn for the worse in health. We all knew the truth. It
was not a battle by any means. Nothing like Nurenburg by any means or other earlier battles, but it was the Allied PRIZE CAPTURE. Especially after letting the Russians have
Berlin. Actually B.Gaden was almost a walkin. Thank God, and was not was expected by any means to be that way after all the propaganda. I am now awaiting rebuttals
from the "Band of Brothers" believers. Should be interesting after this article. After
60 years it is about time the truth came out.. Incidentally, after leaving B.Gaden on May 6 '45 and going to a town near Salzburg Austria here is a pic of Sherms I company's billet for a couple of months. Pretty nice.
