| Interviewee | HOFSTEIN, Arthur (b. 1922) |
| Military Service | U.S. Army WWII Veteran |
| Interview ID # | OH 1650 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II-era U.S. Army veteran. Childhood in Dorchester and Cambridge, Massachusetts; enlistment in U.S. Army and assignment to Tenth Armored Division; basic training at Ft. Benning, Georgia, and reassignment to radio operations and anti-aircraft gunnery; retraining at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, and Camp Gordon, Georgia; Atlantic Ocean crossing; combat operations in France, Luxembourg, and Germany, including Battle of the Bulge, over eight months in 1944-45; thoughts about fighting Germans as a Jewish-American; encounter with an officer of the German SS; liberation of Dachau concentration camp; service during five months of U.S. Army occupation of Germany; return to U.S.; discharge from Army; benefits afforded by GI Bill; involvement in American veterans’ organizations. |
| Interviewer(s) | Charlotte Decoster |
| Physical Description | 43 pp. plus documents (29 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
