"This is what hell is like. In my mind I imagined the devil himself coming up out of the ground." (Video Interview, Part II, 27:26)

James Frank Dorris, Jr.

James Dorris, 2003 War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Unit: Company A, 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow) Service Location: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (induction); Fort McClellan, Alabama (basic training); Fargo, North Dakota; Marseilles, France; Ingelheim, France; Germany; Austria; European Theater Rank: Private First Class Place of Birth: TN

James Dorris came late to the European Theater in World War II, but he wasn't spared one of the most horrifying experiences that any American soldier had in that conflict. He and his unit landed in southern France late in 1944 and were in a captured chateau on the Rhine River by New Year's Eve. But in the spring of 1945, they were assigned to liberate the concentration camp at Dachau, an experience for which none of them was prepared.