Harold Steele
Harold Steele was a farm boy from Illinois who saw action in France and Germany with 89th Infantry Division as an infantry platoon leader. He was one of the first to discover the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp near Buchenwald, and finished the war on occupation duty in Vienna, where he met his future wife, an OSS cryptographer. |
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Interview 1 (Audio)
Initial combat with 89th Division
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Interview 2 (Audio)
Liberation of Ohrdruf & marriage in Vienna
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Related Materials: See also the interview
with Margery Steele, Harold's
wife and his interview in the Agriculture
In Illinois Project |
