Personal Narrative Film, Video Manuscript/Mixed Material Photo, Print, Drawing Software, E-Resource Bruce Donald Fenchel Collection
Veterans History Project Service Summary:
- War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, 3rd Army; Army Reserve
- Location of Service:
- Highest Rank: Private First Class
- Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/2978
Beginning at age eighteen, Bruce Fenchel fought all five of the major battles of Europe under the command of General Patton. Blasted in a tank explosion at Chaumont, he hung onto a gas truck with frozen hands long enough to be dropped at a Belgian family home and pub, where he was hidden in the attic. After fierce battles at Bastogne and the Rhine River, he witnessed terrifying sites of torture apparatus and death when his division liberated the Ohrdurf Concentration Camp.
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Title
- Bruce Donald Fenchel Collection
Names
- Moore, Diane
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
- Evans, Mary E.
- Fenchel, Bruce Donald
Home State
- Iowa
Headings
- - Fenchel, Bruce Donald
- - World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal Narratives
- - United States. Army.
Repository
- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Gender
- Male
Status
- veteran
Service History
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World War, 1939-1945
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, 3rd Army; Army Reserve
- Location of Service:
- Highest Rank: Private First Class
- Dates of Service: 1943-1945
- Entrance into Service: Drafted
- Military Status: veteran
- Service History Note: The veteran attained the rank of captain in the Army Reserve.
Materials
- Video: Digital Betacam [1 item] -- Digitized Copy (collected 2002-11-22)
- Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Transcription of video recording (collected 2011-01-11)
- Computer File: Floppy Disk [1 item] -- Electronic file of manuscript (collected 2002-11-11; 2003-05-03)
- Manuscript: Memoirs [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected 2002-11-11)
- Manuscript: Civilian papers (certificates, forms, wills, etc) [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected 2000-06-20)
- Photograph: Mixed (Multiple types of photographs) [22 items] -- Photograph (collected 1943-1958)
- Video: VHS [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 2002-11-22)
Collection Number
- AFC/2001/001/2978
Cite as
- Bruce Donald Fenchel Collection (AFC/2001/001/2978), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Online Format
- image
- online text
- video