March 29, 1945 - Hicks and Nicol are Liberated

In this video still, rear air gunner Douglas Hicks (with bandaged forehead) celebrates the liberation of Dulag Luft with his fellow POWs, including long-time prisoner Sergeant Edward Hill at bottom left.  The video clip, obtained from CriticalPast.com (labelled Wetzlar, Germany, March 29, 1945 LIB 4857) is one of several discovered by Rolf G. Wilmink, a 75th U.S. Infantry Division history investigator.  Three American war correspondents were brought into the camp that day, including noted journalist Jack Belden, though it is unclear who took the original footage. Unfortunately Nicol did not appear in any of the video of the liberation of Dulag Luft.