joe sacco wwii soldier who liberated auschwitz...

Remembering Joe Sacco of Alabama. Joe landed with his unit at Omaha Beach during the Normandy Invasion and fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a member of General George Patton's famed Third Army. As part of the 92nd Signal Battalion, Sacco and his brothers-in-arms had a front row seat to history, moving with (and oftentimes ahead of)the US infantry as they engaged in some of the greatest battles of World War II.

On April 29, 1945, they liberated the notorious Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany. The Americans could have never imagined what they would witness inside the camp. In describing the prisoners, Sacco said, They were laughing, crying, singing, holding their arms high in the air, embracing each other while looking at us in disbelief, almost unable to grasp that their day of liberation, their exodus, was at hand." "Now, after a year of combat," he said, "each of us finally and forever understood why destiny had called us to travel so far from the land of our birth and to fight for people we did not know. And so it was here, in this place abandoned by God and accursed by men, that we came to discover the meaning of our mission."

His experiences are documented in the book, "where the Birds Never Sing," by his son, Jack Sacco.

We honor his service!