U.S. Army Pfc. Jim Andreadis was a teenager in April 1945 when he made history. That month, the Brooklyn-bred soldier and his unit helped liberate the Nazi-run Ohrdruf concentration camp — one of W…
U.S. Army Pfc. Jim Andreadis was a teenager in April 1945 when he made history.
The event at the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage is a tribute to soldiers who crewed battle tanks in the fight against European fascism on the 80th anniversary of the Sherman tank. The Sherman — a medium tank manufactured by the tens of thousands and fielded by multiple American allies during the war — was a mainstay of the fight against the Axis powers.
Andreadis’ first time in a Sherman was as an 18-year-old city kid fresh out of high school when he was assigned to be a “cannoneer,” which loaded the small tank’s main gun. In December 1944, his unit was nearly sent in to reinforce allied positions in the Battle of the Bulge — the brutal German counter attack near the Belgian border. Instead, the tanks were sent east to liberate the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
After encountering Russian troops in what would soon become the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, Andreadis said they were given “30 days to get out of Czechoslovakia” and when the war formally ended, he was in a field outside of the Czech city of Pilsen, mounted on his Sherman.
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