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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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FRED FIELDS UEHLFELD, GERMANY XX Corps, Third Army Fred Fields was born Siegfried Dingfelder and fled Germany with his family just after Kristallnacht. They arrived in the United States in 1940 and lived in Brooklyn, when Fields worked as a baker until getting drafted into the army. See the [[The Stories/The Enemy I Knew/Fred Fields|full story]].


== Research notes ==
== Research notes ==
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* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
* [https://www.theritchieboys.com/the-stories/the-enemy-i-knew-german-jews-in-the-allied-military-in-world-war-ii/fred-fields theritchieboys.com story]