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My father said he and two others in his squad crossed the river into Berlin and were ordered over the radio to come back to the east bank, because they had to wait for the Russians to enter Berlin.

He told this to my son and I have a hard time getting him to open up, but some day soon.

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They were likely in different units since at the time Berlin fell my uncle was way south in the Sudetenland, in or near Czechoslovakia. He's the one of the three still living. They have an official "day" in his honor every year in his town. He never talked much either. What I know about his activities I heard from my dad and what I know about my dad's I heard from my uncle after dad was gone. The three brothers came home to Queens after the war and moved back into the same room they shared in 1941. The next year or so the house was full of nightly dreams about burning planes, dead and dying friends....you know. I learned this from another uncle who was just a kid then but remembers it well.