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Lt. Harold Hewitt built bridges for the 9th Army in Europe during WWII

In U. S. Army, World War II on June 15, 2012 at 4:38 am

Harold Hewitt holds his 10 month old son, Craig, shortly after returning from the second World War while his wife, Rosemary, stands at his elbow. Beside them in the picture is their 1941 Ford “Super Deluxe” coupe. The couple has been married for 64 years. Photo provided

A couple of months after D-Day, 2nd Lt. Harold Hewitt of Port Charlotte, Fla.  landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, with the 252nd Engineers Battalion, part of Gen. William “Tex” Simpson’s 9th Army fighting in Europe during World War II.

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Sgt. Fred Strass remembers ‘Gardelegen Massacre’ at close of war

In U. S. Army, World War II on June 8, 2011 at 4:38 am

A bugler from the 102nd Infantry Division plays taps as a rifle squadron fires a volley to commemorate 1,016 concentration camp prisoners murdered by German SS Troops at Gardelegen, Germany. Photo provided

Fred Strass was a rifleman in an infantry company that fought in Europe during World War II. He served as a sergeant in K-Company, 406th Regiment of the 102nd Infantry Division. Read the rest of this entry »

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2nd Lt. Carl Citron flew 33 missions in 8th Air Force

In U.S. Air Force, World War II on December 13, 2010 at 4:38 am

In his 20′s, Carl Citron is pictured after he graduated from flight school in Texas during World War II. Photo provided

2nd Lt. Carl Citron hadn’t been in England but a few weeks when his unit,
the 466 Bomb Group, 786 Squadron, of the 8th Air Force, was assigned to a low-level bombing mission in their B-24 Liberators against the German submarine pens at Brest along the coast of Nazi-occupied France.

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He helped capture Remagen Bridge over Rhine River

In Bronze Star, Purple Heart, U. S. Army, World War II on May 21, 2010 at 6:00 am

Pvt. Mike Clemente is pictured at the time he got out of boot camp in 1944. He was 19

The red, white and black Nazi flag was in as good condition, swastika and all, as the day Mike Clemente pulled it off a flag pole that stood in a tiny public square in Remagen, Germany almost 60 years ago.

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