Posted on Nov 18, 2017
This MoH recipient led one of the most successful hand-to-hand assaults in WWII
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Continued to fight after being shot in the jugular...!
This MoH recipient led one of the most successful hand-to-hand assaults in WWII
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Medal of Honor WWII World War Two
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I don't understand how they did it.... that generation of men and wome was something else.
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COL Lee Flemming I've been to this camp for a wake of a soldier killed in Iraq a number of years ago. There was an effort to name Camp Niantic after Colonet Nett but politics got in the way. The link talks about that effort. I agree it should be changed. The only thing i have in common with Colonel Nett is we both served in Vietnam and during WWII Colonel Nett wore the patch of the 77th Infantry Division, my first reserve unit after I got off active duty. http://www.registercitizen.com/opinion/article/Leave-politics-out-of-it-the-name-of-Camp-11961667.php
Leave politics out of it: the name of Camp Niantic should be changed to honor late veteran
Some battles must be fought and victory must be claimed when the cause is just.Such is the case of New Haven native Robert B. Nett, who rose from enlisted man to the rank of colonel, fought in three wars, earned a Purple Heart, and was awarded the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor.That's the stuff of legends and good stuff for a guy who wanted to serve his country so badly that he fudged the age on his birth certificate...
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