Heinrich Hierthes
Heinrich Hierthes, SS-Standartenführer, was born in Neuberg on July 25, 1897. He served as the commander of the 3rd SS Totenkopfstandarte “Thüringen” (the guard troops) at the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1937 to 1940. He later served in the Waffen-SS Cavalry Brigade (under Hermann Fegelein) on the Eastern Front, winning the Iron Cross First Class. Hierthes died in a Soviet prisoner of war camp in 1951-1953. (The Camp Men: The SS Officers Who Ran the Nazi Concentration Camp System)
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American Hangman
The military flew the remains of Master Sergeant Woods from Eniwetok Atoll to Hawaii for an autopsy, which was performed at 4:00 p.m. on July 25, 1950 – almost four days after the incident – by Captain John K. Frost at Tripler Army Hospital. His summary was approved by Major Gilbert B. Stansell, Chief of Laboratory Service at Tripler. (American Hangman: MSgt. John C. Woods: The United States Army’s Notorious Executioner in World War II and Nürnberg)
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LTC Van Hugo Bond (left) and COL Paddy Flint (right)
At 1917 hours on July 4, 1944, a radio report indicates that a sniper’s bullet had hit Colonel Harry Flint in the head, not penetrated Paddy’s skull, but an operation is required to remove a large blood clot, when the bullet blew a thumb-size skull fragment into his brain. An Indiana neurosurgeon, Major Calvin Basil Fausset operates, but to no avail. Paddy hangs on to life as long as he can, but dies the following day, July 25. He is temporarily interred at the United States Military Cemetery Number 2 at Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy. George Patton, Lawton Collins, and Manton Eddy attend the burial service. (Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th US Infantry Division in WWII)