90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week: Mainz, Germany.

What a mess war leaves behind! This edition of the 90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week features a shot of members of the 90th ID, flushing German stragglers from the rubble of Mainz, Germany.

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 358th Infantry, 90th Infantry Division, advance through the rubble-strewn streets of Mainz, Germany - March 1945. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo, Courtesy National Archives)

One Response to “90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week: Mainz, Germany”

  1. I was a rifleman in E Co. 358 Reg’t on the 22nd of March entering the
    outskirts of Mainz through an apple orchard. We received small arms fire
    immediately and crawled forward in deep furrows in this orchard to keep
    our profile as low as possible, several were wounded and Sgt. Stanley
    Bernardo died of wounds from this event. We rose to “marching fire”
    and found ourselves in the middle of artillery fire from ours and the enemy.
    Then came the P-47 fighter planes strafing just ahead of us which saved
    our lives. My BAR man managed to silence two Germans who were about
    to kill both of us. Following the P-47 strafing, we began taking German
    prisoners without resistance and three of us GIs took 54 POWs in a short
    while, taking them to the rear area. This was a very eventful day and
    we felt the Air Corps really saved our lives that day. Mail call that night
    in the railroad station revealed that my brother was a POW of the Germans. Two weeks later a Recon group that worked with the 90th
    helped to liberate my brother on Easter Sunday 1945.

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