14th Armored Uniform Shirt With Patches Named With Documents
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A USA uniform shirt from the 14th Armored Division worn by Paul A. Harvey. Size is 14-33. Unit patches on the sleeves and a 'ruptured duck" on the front. A couple of small pinholes near the left underarm. Also included is a Order To Report For Induction at Lancaster Ohio, Fairfield County and a Fourth Armored Division Association certificate. The 14th Armored Division joined the Allied invasion of western Europe in October 1944, when it landed in Marseille in southern France. By early 1945, the "Liberators" had advanced as far as Alsace-Lorraine, provinces that had been incorporated into Germany after France's defeat in 1940. In March and April, the 14th penetrated the Rhineland and moved into Bavaria. By war's end, the division had reached the Danube River. As the 14th advanced into southern Germany, it uncovered several subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp. Operating near the towns of Ampfing and Mühldorf, the unit discovered four large munitions plants built underground, some 15,000 tons of high explosive, and three large forced-labor camps, housing thousands of Polish and Soviet civilian workers. The 14th also liberated two other camps nearby, one holding 1,500 Jewish prisoners and the other filled with Jewish female inmates. The unit reported that of the 1,500 prisoners in the first camp, only 900 could walk, and that the
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