Published April 15, 2010, 12:00 AM
HOLLAND — More than halfway through his tour of duty as a radioman following the U.S. Army’s front lines through Europe, Don Moffitt and his fellow soldiers in the 3rd Armored Division came upon the city of Nordhausen, Germany, and its Nazi labor camp. There, they saw hundreds of emaciated bodies stacked in piles outside the Brausebad, the bath house that doubled as a gas chamber.
Veteran Don Moffitt received a Purple Heart in World War II
Holland man earns five battle stars, Bronze Star and Purple Heart during World War IIHOLLAND — More than halfway through his tour of duty as a radioman following the U.S. Army’s front lines through Europe, Don Moffitt and his fellow soldiers in the 3rd Armored Division came upon the city of Nordhausen, Germany, and its Nazi labor camp. There, they saw hundreds of emaciated bodies stacked in piles outside the Brausebad, the bath house that doubled as a gas chamber.
By: Julie Buntjer, Worthington Daily Globe
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