Furthermore, their recollections precisely describe features of Dachau. Also, international attorney and author Samuel Pisar was rescued from a death march only 25 kilometers from Dachau by a black tanker. After the war Mr. Pisar was able to positively identify that specific member of the 761st. In this case as well, there is no military document that places that tanker in that place on that day. But the fact remains.
Some centers amplify the definition of the term to include soldiers present in the first week.
Both time frames are accepted uses of the term as it applies to concentration camp liberation. The oral history testimony in the film by 761st tankers. Pertaining to Buchenwald, the detailed testimony by several veterans of the 183rd, one 761st tanker, and a number of camp survivors, places them at Buchenwald the first day of its liberation. Had the filmmakers any reason to believe that this one sentence would by parsed in such detail and used as the illogical underpinning for an argument that the African-American soldiers were never there, they would undoubtedly have constructed the sentence differently. Needless to say, they regret any ambiguity.