William T. Johnson in Kempten, Germany

This is a picture of the RatHaus (City Hall) in Kempten, Germany, from Google Earth. I spent a few months in Kempten from December 1945 to March 1946. I had been in school in England for a few months before and my unit (Co M, 14th Inf, 71st Div) had moved to Kempten from Memmingen while I was gone. I was pleased to find I had been promoted to Corporal in my absence. The company was billeted in a Catholic girls' school with the nuns on the third floor and us on the bottom two. We pulled guard duty in the city and I remember being on post near a church on Christmas Eve with snow on the ground and a service in the church. Very impressive!