This scrapbook covers Staff Sergeant Howard A. Koch’s service with Company C, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division during World War II and the Army of Occupation. It includes letters to and from his family, photographs in and out of uniform, newspaper clippings regarding specific campaigns he fought in, and his badges and ribbons among other wartime mementos. The most interesting contents of Koch’s scrapbook come from his time spent as a special escort for the indicted criminals of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) or the Nuremberg Trials. According to his recollections, he was among only a special few “persons to have the keys to the cells of the top 20 Nazis.” While on guard, Koch collected thirteen signatures of the war criminals, including the infamous Hermann Göring’s. He stated, “There is no money in the world worth what I experienced at the Nuremberg Trials.” Koch served courageously with the 18th Infantry Regiment, receiving a Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart for wounds received at Aachen, Germany.