Meet the liberators

Fletcher Thorne-Thomsen said he would never forget one emaciated man who was so happy to see the American he tried to hug him with fragile arms.

“I can still see a pair of eyes,” he said. The man’s look was penetrating. It’s haunted him for 65 years…

He was part of a forward operating unit of the Army, so he wasn’t able to stay to find out what happened to the old man with the haunting eyes. But he knows in his heart that the man survived.

“Oh, sure,” he said with confidence. “The Americans were there.”