The Fifth Infantry Division

    

    

World War II

 

 

   
 
 
     
 
 

 
      
 

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HRA File No. B0408020000111

   

PFC Charles Havlat of 2nd Platoon, Recon Company, 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 5th Infantry Division, was the last man to die in battle in WW-II at 08:20 hours, on 07 May 1945, near Volary, Czechoslovakia, six hours after a cease-fire had been ordered ending WW-II.