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Sgt. Clyde Housel of Port Charlotte, Fla. was sniper at ‘Battle of Bulge’ in WW II

In U. S. Army, World War II on March 29, 2013 at 3:38 am
The war for Sgt. Clyde Housel of Reverwood subdivision in Port Charlotte is over when this picture of the 20-year-old soldier was taken in Reams, France in 1945. Note he's wearing the Combat Infantryman's Badge on his chest. Photo provided

The war for Sgt. Clyde Housel of Reverwood subdivision in Port Charlotte, Fla. is over when this picture of the 20-year-old soldier was taken in Reams, France in 1945. Note he’s wearing the Combat Infantryman’s Badge on his chest. Photo provided

Former Sgt. Clyde Housel of Port Charlotte, Fla. found himself in the snow and cold huddled in a foxhole along the Siegfried Line searching for Germans to shoot with his 1903 Springfield sniper rifle and scope on Dec. 16, 1944. He was a 1st Army sniper. Read the rest of this entry »

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Army was turning point for 17-year-old Punta Gorda, Fla. soldier – Abraham Coleman received two Purple Hearts while fighting in Korea

In Korean War, Purple Heart, U. S. Army on June 8, 2012 at 4:38 am

This was Abraham Coleman as a 17 year old recruit who signed up and eventually went to war some 60 years ago. He grew up in Punta Gorda, Fla. Photo provided

Former Cpl. Abraham Coleman joined the U.S. Army in 1947 at 17, “just to get the hell away from Punta Gorda.” He wanted to find a better life with more opportunities for a young black man than living in a small Southern town. Read the rest of this entry »

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Marine Pfc. Frank Garcia attacked in first wave at Iwo Jima

In Purple Heart, U.S. Marine Corps, World War II on June 1, 2012 at 4:38 am

Pfc. Frank Garcia is pictured in the back row, second from the right in this Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper published during World War II. Photo provided

A week after the Japanese bombed the Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, dragging the United States into World War II, Frank Garcia joined the U.S. Marine Corps. Read the rest of this entry »

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Bible helped Pfc. Bill Waits survive Stalag 7-A in Germany during WW II

In U. S. Army, World War II on May 23, 2012 at 4:38 am

This badly damaged picture of Pfc. Bill Waits of Nocatee, Fla. is his only service picture. He served in the Army’s 26th Division with Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army in France and spent seven months in a German POW camp before he was liberated along with another 110,000 other Allied prisoners. Photo.provided

The steel-plated gold cover on the outside of Bill Waits’ “Heart Shield Bible” he carried in his breast pocket while a rifleman in the 26th Infantry Division during the Allied invasion of France in the closing months of World War II was inscribed in flowing script: “May this keep you from harm.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Sgt. Chuck Walsh was among first Green Berets in South Vietnam

In Vietnam War on March 17, 2010 at 4:38 am

Chuck Walsh, a former Green Beret staff sergeant in Vietnam, who now lives in Bellagio subdivision in Venice, Fla., served in the 5th Special Forces unit in 1962 looks at a VFW magazine with his picture on the cover. The cover story is about a dozen old soldiers returning to the country as a group in 2005. Photo by Don Moore

When Staff Sgt.Chuck Walsh’s Green Beret unit jumped into Dak Pek, in the highlands of South Vietnam in 1962 to fight alongside the Montagnards, the indigenous people, they were trail blazers.

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