WWII Veteran Margaret Gill Honored In North Tonawanda
“Margaret Gill was a true American hero during World War II,” said Senator Maziarz. “A look at her life reveals a person who took great risks to serve our country and our soldiers. Amidst the horrors of war, she selflessly treated the sick, wounded, and dying. Her wartime service, and her entire medical career, deserve to be remembered. We are very grateful to her. She has made North Tonawanda very proud.”
After growing up in North Tonawanda and earning a nursing degree in Buffalo, Margaret Gill enlisted in the US Army in May 1941. In the immediate aftermath of the Allied invasion on D-Day, Margaret and her fellow nurses established a field hospital in Normandy for General Patton’s Third Army and operated there for several months. On Christmas morning, the hospital was moved to Bastogne where it was under constant enemy fire. The camp had only three walls and no roof, but continued to treat wounded soldiers in the cold and in the snow. Gill later was assigned to the 60th Division and treated victims of the infamous Dachau concentration camp upon its liberation.
Gill saw two more actions before she was sent to Panama to work in a field hospital. Promoted to First Lieutenant, she was awarded the Bronze Star for her heroic work in Bastogne and five battle stars for being part of the storming of Normandy and the liberation of Dachau. After the war, Gill continued to work as a nurse for several decades in Long Island where she raised a family.
Margaret Gill was the first woman in New York State to be awarded the Bronze Star medal for bravery under enemy fire, and she is honored on the Women In Military Service For America Memorial in Washington, DC. She died in 1978.
A large, framed, commemorative plaque in Gill’s honor was unveiled today and will remain on public display in North Tonawanda City Hall for one month. Senator Maziarz was joined at the event by local government officials and Margaret Gill’s daughter, Mary Jeffords of Sanborn.
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Promoted to First Lieutenant, she was awarded the Bronze Star for her heroic work in Bastogne and five battle stars for being part of the storming of Normandy and the liberation of Dachau. After the war, Gill continued to work as a nurse for several
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A US Army nurse during World War II, Gill was involved in the Normandy invasion and treated Holocaust survivors after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Gill was also recently inducted into the State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame.
the mystery of the small opening on the outside wall of the Dachau ...
The photo above shows a boarded-up hole in the outside wall of the Baracke X building at the former Dachau concentration camp. There is no corresponding hole on the inside of the building; the room behind this wall was allegedly a homicidal gas chamber. I always assumed that this was a botched construction of a peep hole. Until now…
When I read in the news today about the death of Harry W. Mazal, I decided to take another look at his famous holocaust-history.org website. The purpose of Mazal’s website, according to his daughter, is to combat Holocaust denial. I had read the section on the Dachau gas chamber years ago when I first became interested in the Holocaust. In reading this section again, I was particularly interested in his description of how a homicidal gassing was carried out at Dachau.
The person in charge of a homicidal gassing need only don a gas mask, open the two bins, and dump part of a small tin of Zyklon-B into each one. Having done this, the operator would close the bins, which are protected from interference from the victims by a protective grating, <photo 40> <photo 41> and wait a few minutes until all the victims were dead. At this point, the powerful mechanical extractor could be energized sending the poisonous fumes into the atmosphere, drawing fresh air through a small hatchway located above the bins . The bodies could then be moved into the mortuary chamber to await incineration in the adjoining crematory furnaces.
A larger room adjacent to the four disinfestation chambers is also a gas chamber but this one was designed specifically for homicidal purposes. Any doubts that this chamber is a gas chamber are rapidly dispelled upon viewing the exhaust vents on the ceiling of the room <photo 31>, the exhaust chimney on the roof <photo 32>, and the metal doors that are in use by the the disinfestation gas chambers <photo 33>.
The photo above shows two “exhaust chimneys” on the roof of the Baracke X building, one of which is directly over the gas chamber. The photo below shows the roof of the building in 1945 just after the camp was liberated. Note that the larger pipe on the right is the same kind of pipe that is shown in the color photo, above the gas chamber. I don’t know of any photo, taken before the liberation of Dachau, that shows a vent pipe directly over the alleged gas chamber. The photo below was taken several days after the camp was liberated. In fact, there are no old photos of the gas chamber building that I have ever seen.
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