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Archer, Richard Harold, Pvt.
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PVT Richard Archer was employed as a carpenters helper prior to entering the service on 10 September 1943. He served as a mail clerk with Company H, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division in Europe from 9 March 1944 to 15 November 1945. Upon returning stateside PVT Archer was honorably discharged on 1 December 1945 at Fort Meade, Maryland. Richard Archer passed away on 30 May 2013 in Bayard, WV. Wounded 19 March 1945 in Germany
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Central Europe Campaign (1945)
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March / 1945
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May / 1945
Description (Central Europe Campaign 22 March to 11 May 1945) Following the Battle of the Bulge the Allies had pushed through to the Rhine. On 22 March 1945 they began their assault across the river, and by I April the Ruhr was encircled. Armored columns raced across Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 25 April, the day American and Russian forces met on the Elbe, strategic bombing operations came to an end. Germany surrendered on 7 May 1945 and operations officially came to an end the following day, although sporadic actions continued on the European front until 11 May.