The battalion withdrew gradually from what was to become the Soviet occupation zone already agreed at the Yalta Conference . While still in the Soviet zone , the battalion was given the unique mission of transporting repatriated eastern European slave laborers from Plauen to Chomutov in Czechoslovakia using the battalion 's trucks . After displacing to the US zone , on 12 July 1945 , the battalion was given another unusual mission and was tasked to return to the Soviet zone to pick up German prisoners , wounded , and attending medical staff located at Gera and Grimma which had fought the Americans . Although the Russians at Gera refused to hand over the Germans , the patients and staff at Grimma were duly handed over on 13 July and the convoy returned to Hersfeld in the American zone on 14 July
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
735th Tank Battalion (United States)