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Fighting Across the Rhine River into Germany | Hilbert Margol

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Hilbert Margol was the first of twin boys born to his parents in February 1924. He was nearly finished with high school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Soon, Margol and his brother, Howard, were in the Army, training on 105 mm howitzers with the 42nd Infantry Division. They saw their first combat in southern France in January 1945. After that, they fought into Germany, crossed the Rhine River, and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp near Munich.

Interview recorded on November 8, 2024

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Video Credits:
Interviewer - Greg Corombos
Editor - Daniel Taksas

Pinnacle | Creative Visual Strategies
DP/Cam Op - Jon Hambacker

20 Comments

@americanveteranscenter Creator 12 days ago Pinned

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@BurtiousElboüsseny 12 days ago

This man was 100 years old when this interview was recorded! He could pass for 70

@Pamflute1 12 days ago

We owe these men EVERYTHING. Thank you for your many sacrifices. 🇺🇸

@VFRSTREETFIGHTER 12 days ago

Amazing interview, please keep up the excellent work.

@paulrussell2452 9 days ago (edited)

These men are treasures! My God what they encountered and endured.

@MariaAnnRooney 9 days ago

Thank you so much for sharing your life and your service to our country. My dad was in the Seabees in WW ll. ❤️

@DeathbyKillerBong 11 days ago

every damn time a soldier describes those camps im filled with such anger....

@justmeagain38 12 days ago

Thank you for your service sir!

@Zach-ku6eu 12 days ago

My Grandfather crossed the Rein with the Big Red One. I spent six years with them stationed in Germany as a frontline Combat Explosives Engineer. I'm glad you made it back Sir! 💪✋👊 War Vet Fist Bump

@HollyWinsman 12 days ago

Thank you for your service sir.

@Tallwhite50 5 days ago

I wish these videos were longer.This is a tease

@stonks_n_chomps7556 12 days ago

My great grandfather (grandmothers father) served with you! I am lucky enough to have his flag and an empty schnapps bottle he brought home from the European Theater. My great grandfather (grandfathers father) served in the Pacific Theater. I have an artillery shell that he brought home from Iwo Jima. Thank you for your service and your continued telling of your service to our youth. We need to know the heroic deeds and sacrifices of ordinary men during inordinately circumstances.❤

@adamsuarez5619 12 days ago

My grandpa was right there with you! 🇺🇸

@funny.brooo123 5 days ago

I clicked out of curiosity and stayed because it was awesome.

@thei9895 12 days ago

Thank you for the content.

@davegibbs6423 9 days ago

My dad was there. He said you could smell it miles away. The pictures I saw of the trains were shocking.

@DanCarlin-o1t 9 hours ago

Some might say he is lucky to have lived that long, I feel we are the lucky ones that he lived long enough to tell his story. My father fought in the Pacific, PTSD took him at 58yo I never got to hear his stories.

@BeirutVet1982 2 days ago

My Uncle was in the Rainbow Division during WW2. Great Interview.

@vintageadventureswithrobert 2 days ago

I remember a comic skit put on by the show Dave Allen at large. And the skit was this: They were going around getting the last soldiers from the pacific war and while they were doing it the Japanese soldier pointed a first world war German soldier still wearing is pickel halbe coming down the road. And them there was a Napoleonic soldier coming down as well. And there was a spartan soldier still wearing his red cloak, and saying to himself,
"Why is it that I always miss the boat?" I remember what Josey Whales said. I guess everyone died a little in that damn war. It does not matter how old we get, all soldiers can never forget what happened to them.

@richardmaier28 12 days ago

my great great great grandfather left Alsatian/Lorraine just before our civil war and between his wife whom he met in nyc from England generations before I'm proud of our heritage also my mother's side. Life would have been a tad different 😊