Victory

In the finals days of the war, the 44th stormed through southern Germany, Austria and Italy to deny the enemy of the fabled Alpine Redoubt. In the race through the Reich, the 44th captured the cities of Mannheim, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Ulm, and Kempten.   The concluding encounter of the Western Allied ETO war effort was at Fern Pass.

(left) A time-bomb explodes in the building formerly used by the Nazi Party in Reutte, Austria, May 1945.