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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: CPL David Marshall, U.S. Army, WWII, Roer Valley, Battle of the Bulge
Description: David Marshall was 16 years old and lying in a New York hospital room after suffering a sports injury when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Upon turning seventeen the following year, he was drafted into the Army, intially trained as a medic before assigned as an engineer in the infantry - specifically the 84th Infantry Division. The unit deployed to England in September 1944 and came ashore in France at Omaha Beach some five months after D-Day.In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," David Marshall takes us inside his first combat around the town...