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He landed in France 3 weeks after D-Day. He got hit by a mortar shell in Sept. near Nancy France. German doctors amputated his right leg, then sent to a POW camp. He had two more operations from Yugoslavian and Russian MDs. He was in Co G 134 Infantry Regiment 35th Infantry Division. Had he not been wounded and captured, he would have likely been at the Bulge.

My father was the engineering officer on a LST, Ensign later LTjg. He was at Leyte, landed at Mindanao and Balikpapan. He served under Admiral Kincaid 7th Fleet. He was on board his ship in Tokyo Harbor on September 2 1945, hearing the formal surrender on shipboard radio.

Those were Iron Men!