45TH INFANTRY DIVISION

Dachau, Germany • April 29, 1945 On a gray last Sunday in April 1945, 10 miles/­16 kilo­meters north of Munich, Bavaria’s capital, U.S. sol­diers of the 42nd Infan­try Divi­sion, nick­named the “Rain­bow Divi­sion,” the 45th “Thun­derbird” Infan­try Divi­sion, and the 27th Tank Bat­tal­ion were over­whelmed by the horror they saw as they closed in on Dachau con­cen­tra­tion…