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→Service during World War II: Date of capture
==Service during World War II==
==Service during World War II==
While serving as a US Army infantry scout, Vonnegut was captured by the Germans during the [[Battle of the Bulge]] and sent to a [[POW]] camp in [[Dresden]]. By day he was forced to work in a factory and by night he was confined in the basement meat locker of a slaughterhouse. It was in the safety of this locker, some 60 feet underground, that he and some of his fellow prisoners were able to survive the firebombing of Dresden on February 13-15, 1945.<ref>https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/kurt-biography/</ref>
While serving as a US Army infantry scout, Vonnegut was captured by the Germans during the [[Battle of the Bulge]] and sent to a [[POW]] camp in [[Dresden]] in December 1944. By day he was forced to work in a factory and by night he was confined in the basement meat locker of a slaughterhouse. It was in the safety of this locker, some 60 feet underground, that he and some of his fellow prisoners were able to survive the firebombing of Dresden on February 13-15, 1945.<ref>https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/kurt-biography/</ref>
In the aftermath, Vonnegut describes:
In the aftermath, Vonnegut describes: