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Name
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Clair Bert VanAuker
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Branch
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U.S. Army
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Rank
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PFC
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Home Town
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Riverton, KS
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Wartime Service Dates
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1943-1945
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Wartime Locations
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European Theater, Omaha Beach, France & Austris
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Major Battles
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Normandy & Ryan Land (?).
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Military Service Dates
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Same as above
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Unit
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629th Tank Battalion
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Accomplishments
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He drove his M10, open turret tank destroyer on Omaha Beach two weeks after D-Day. Five months after he was wounded he was back driving a six-by half track full of live ammunition to the front lines on the Blue Danube
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Medals
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Purple Heart, for being wounded in July 1944.
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