{"id":72019,"date":"2017-05-13T07:58:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T11:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72019"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:40","slug":"andrew-nelson-phony-frogman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72019","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Nelson; phony frogman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phonies<\/a> send us their research on this 90-year-old World War II veteran, Andrew Nelson. He’s been telling people that he was a frogman for at least 18 years. Here he tells the Hartford Courant<\/a> in 1999;<\/p>\n

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And the Post and Courier in 2005;<\/p>\n

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\nHe claims that he earned a Bronze Star for Valor and a Purple Heart;<\/p>\n

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Well, he was a veteran of World War II and despite his claims that he was in the Korean War, his service during that war was limited to working in Maryland.<\/p>\n

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During WWII, he was assigned to the USS Kishwaukee, a fuel ship that supported the Okinawa and Philippine campaigns, but probably far from the battle given their cargo. He was a yeoman (a clerk);<\/p>\n

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He was finally discharged in 1952. In 1954, he wrote to the Navy asking what awards he earned for the Korean War;<\/p>\n

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They responded that he’d earned the NDSM.<\/p>\n

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