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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe heard through various channels that this William Goehner fellow had given a talk about his experiences to a group at the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, California. He told the crowd that he had been awarded a Navy Cross, 3 Silver Stars and 4 Purple Hearts, that he was a 19-year-old Lieutenant Commander, that Richard Widmark had portrayed him in the movie “The Frogmen”, that George Patton had gone looking for him because Hill was so famous in the European Theater as one of the “first Navy SEALs”. Well, of course, none of that was true, and our buddy, Dan Noyes<\/a> tracked him down;<\/p>\n The problem is that none of it is true. The I-Team started digging and obtained Goehner’s records under the Freedom of Information Act. He did serve in the Navy during WWII, but left as a seaman first class, not a lieutenant commander. He was never in the UDT, and he never received the Navy Cross, Silver Stars, and Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n Noyes: “Are you sure about those medals?” When Noyes gave Mr. Goehner a copy of his actual records from the Navy, he showed a certificate supposedly from the Library of Congress detailing his accomplishments, but then admitted a schoolteacher friend had made it on a computer. Still, Goehner persisted with his tall tales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He’s another Library of Congress Veterans History Project liar – that means that he has altered history with his tall tales. <\/p>\n
\nGoehner: “Oh, yes.”
\nNoyes: “You’re sure about four Purple Hearts?”
\nGoehner: “Oh, yes.”<\/p>\n