Nimitz?
Third Infantry Division, from North Africa to Italy, Southern France to Nuremberg.
The dirty little secret is that Americans of German descent are the largest minority population in the United States. How come nobody knows this? Because we aren't anything but Americans, first-, -last, or anything else.
True. Eisenhower is said to have stated before he set foot on German soil after the surrender “never thought an Eisenhower would come back here after 25 years”.
If anyone read (or saw) Band of Brothers, the US Army caught a couple of Americans of German descent who fought for the SS.
Of course, we all know what Lt. Spears did to them (wink)
There were so many Germans in my home town that if they didn't serve there would have been no army.
Yes, that is badly put. We had German Americans, but we didn’t have any Nazis. We didn’t enroll Nazis in our army and send them to medical school. We did not allow them to enlist and then send them to fight Nazis in Germany.
There were a large number of German born soldiers in the American Army during World War II. Most of them were Jews. I worked for one. Kissinger was another. The guy I worked for had a thick Katzenjammer accent and I remember having lunch with some customers and he spoke about his experiences during “the war”. You could have heard a pin drop. Of course, he spent the war in the Pacific and in context, it became clear what he was talking about.
BTW, he started his career working for Norden some years after the war and his boss was a REAL German who spent the war designing bombsights for the Luftwaffe. He claimed he had a Norden bombsight on his desk during the entire war and wasn’t very impressed with it.
Some famous Germans aided the Allies, for instance Marlene Dietrich did USO tours and never set foot in Germany after 1939.
Germans in the US Army, The Reihardts, 2 Generals that commanded Infantry Divisions in Germany. Eichenburger a 3 star in the Pacific, the list is long I’m sure. Gen. Bolte too. And that other German Guy, The Commander in Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Sen. Inoye of Hawaii was a Japanese-American soldier who lost an arm fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. He didn’t kill 13 Caucasians so he didn’t get shipped out and be forced to “shoot his fellow Japanese”, like this cowardly prick Hasan. Inoye did his duty.
Chester Nimitz is another. There’s a famous aircraft carrier named after him.
We DID NOT have germans in the army who were born in Germany and loyal to Hitler.