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Fred Lott

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It was eerily quiet on the front line when there was no firing. Fred Lott's squad was sent out into the stillness to deliver food to an outpost. They were following a telephone wire until they came to a cut in the line. The other end was nowhere to be found. Now what? (3:19)

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At night the GI's would stay in German houses. Fred Lott recalls the time they threw a lot of the resident's belongings into the yard and a woman began weeping. From then on, they treated the displaced German civilians with respect, which was returned. At one house, a howitzer battery was placed a little too close for comfort. (5:31)

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There were a couple of times in Germany when Fred Lott thought that he would surely get an award or something. The first time was when he found a picture of what looked like some SS VIP's. The second was when his unit outflanked a German unit and captured many prisoners. Neither one worked out for him. (4:34)

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Fred Lott's unit was at the Remagen bridge, but they crossed on the newly built pontoon bridge. The German forces were fleeing as fast as they could and the Americans were right on their heels. There was a lot of surrendering, including a surprise group of Polish WAC's. (4:13)

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The end was near. American GI's had moved through Leipzig and were pushing deeper into Germany. There was a meeting with Russian forces, which drew a lot of American brass hoping for a photo op. Fred Lott's unit was being held in reserve and they had a softball game going when word came of the German surrender. (4:32)

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Fred Lott didn't have enough points to return home after the German surrender, so he extended and transferred to a finance outfit in a German resort town. It turned out to be a great last assignment. (5:13)

Fred Miller

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He had enough ROTC to know that he didn't want to be in the infantry. Fred Miller was a good student and the Army Air Corps decided he would make a good navigator. After his training, he joined a B-17 crew and arrived in England in the spring of 1945. (4:17)

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It was April in 1945 when B-17 navigator Fred Miller arrived in England. The Nazis were on the ropes and the handful of missions he flew helped ensure it was over. (7:14)

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After the war, Fred Miller didn't have nearly enough points to return home, so he was put in a unit that ferried people around the continent. There were no airlines at that point, so it was a badly needed service. He found some time to travel to England and even attended the University of Aberdeen for a while. (3:46)

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In post war England, Fred Mills was a security officer trying to regulate air traffic between there and the continent. There was a big problem with black market money exchange and he came up with a good idea to fight it, but it made him unpopular with the pilots. (6:20)