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Erin Faith Allen and Fortitude Research have been featured in American and European press, broadcast media, and scholarly publications for investigative WWII research, Holocaust documentation, and the human reconstruction of wartime history.
A leading expert on the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division and the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, her work extends to Holocaust documentation, the recovery of women's wartime stories, and the human histories that official records leave behind.
Her work has appeared in the Daily Herald, the Houston Chronicle, French national press, and German memorial institution publications. She is a contributing writer for the Rainbow Reveille, the official journal of the 42nd Infantry Division, published continuously since 1917.
She has appeared on WW2TV and authored guest pieces for international history platforms. Her forthcoming book, One Day Over the Rhine, is in active development.
Erin accompanies 42nd “Rainbow” Division veteran Lockered “Bud” Gahs to the American Veterans Center Gala
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What a Handwritten Signature Unlocked for Me
Guest Writer for Germanology Unlocked, December 2025
I was deep in the documentation trail of a German town called Dinslaken, following an SS man whose name appeared in wartime records. My ability to read Sütterlin, the handwritten script of wartime German records, took me inside the Bergen-Belsen death register. His name was there. And so was another name I never expected to find. It led me straight to the story of Anne Frank.
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When Tom Breen's father came home from the war, he brought back stories. Eighty years later, Erin Faith Allen cross-referenced those stories against Rainbow Division primary source documentation and rebuilt Vernon Breen's exact path across Europe: Strasbourg, Alsace, Würzburg, Dachau, Vienna. Then she walked every step of it with his son. One of Vernon's stories had lived with Tom for decades: a sprint toward a crossroads, an 88 shell, a plaster wall that saved his life. Through archival research, Erin located that exact wall. Tom stood in front of it. The shell damage is still visible.
"This wasn't just a tour, it was a living act of remembrance."
Daily Herald, September 2025.
Tom Breen came from Chicago to walk the ground his father crossed as a 19-year-old GI in the winter of 1944. DNA Alsace, the leading newspaper of the region where Vernon Breen fought,followed the journey through Dauendorf and the villages of Alsace where the 42nd Division pushed through during the liberation. Erin Faith Allen, passionate about the history of the 42nd Division, guided every step of it.
DNA Alsace, August 2025.
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