1. The major people and places that affected my grandpa would have to be Lieutenant X, the president and Germany. Lieutenant X was his company commander, he was the man that assigned my grandpa on all of his missions and assignments. Most of them were deciding factors of whether he lived or died during the war.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm3Bntsp2ck
2.
A. One thing that would have drastically changed my grandpa's life is not getting the information that Auschwitz was liberated. His company hearing this had such a moral boost that saved his life in the up coming days, since they were hunkered down under attack.
B. Another thing was another moral boost, that also bummed his company out a little bit. Hearing news of the battle of the bulge was a big hit to the moral of the company. It got them into a few sticky situations that shouldn't have happened.
http://www.worldwariihistory.info/1945.html
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm3Bntsp2ck
Both of these were big parts in history, the bigger ones being the bombing, for this it was the real end of the war for my grandpa, by then he was in the hospital. So this was a big relax for him, he found out that the war was over and he would never have to go back.
