On the 29th day of April 1945, the forward battalions, or Spearhead, of the Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry, were moving swiftly toward Munich. Confident and optimistic, they had survived four months of costly and bitter combat, and soon, it would all be over. But then the road led to Dachau and the worst day of the war. In their collected memoirs, the soldiers of the Spearhead, almost half of whom were only eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years old, tell how they were confronted suddenly--without preparation, without ...
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On the 29th day of April 1945, the forward battalions, or Spearhead, of the Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry, were moving swiftly toward Munich. Confident and optimistic, they had survived four months of costly and bitter combat, and soon, it would all be over. But then the road led to Dachau and the worst day of the war. In their collected memoirs, the soldiers of the Spearhead, almost half of whom were only eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years old, tell how they were confronted suddenly--without preparation, without warning--by horrors beyond human imagination.
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