Saul Schiff was born in the Bronx in 1923, the youngest of four boys and one girl. Three years later they moved to Morristown, New Jersey. His parents were European Jews, leaving families in Europe and coming to America. At age 20, Saul was drafted into the US Army and because he had gone to radio and television school, he was soon promoted to the rank of Corporal Technician and sent to Sound Ranging School. Sound ranging was a technique used in WW II to locate and plot the position of enemy guns which were firing on our troops and installations. His group moved through France, Luxembourg and Germany ending up fighting in the battle of the bulge. Saul's unit had many successful mission that took out the "Nancy Gun." This was a 280 mm railroad gun shelling out Headquarter in Nancy, France. At the wars end, his battalion drove by Dachau, seeing piles of bodies, not realizing until later what they had witnessed. Saul's two brothers also served and he was able to meet them while in Europe. Saul returned home, working as a Mechanical Engineer at the Rock Island Arsenal. He married a lady who was a surviving Polish Jew, once they both were back in the US. Courtesy of abookbyme.