Template:Did you know nominations/James B. Thayer

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The result was: promoted by HalfGig talk 13:07, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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... that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp, saving thousands of people from starvation? Source: University of Oregon Alumni Association News, 15 July 2015, says: "on May 4, 1945 … Thayer’s reconnaissance platoon was in Austria … they found … the Gunskirchen Lager death camp, home to 15,000 prisoners who had been abandoned by the Nazis …"

Reviewed: Sidney Howe Short

Created by Orygun (talk). Self-nominated at 05:03, 11 March 2017 (UTC).

- Length, Date, Cite, QPQ, and Earwigs check. Mifter (talk) 05:42, 11 March 2017 (UTC)