{"id":74447,"date":"2017-09-03T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74447"},"modified":"2017-09-03T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T12:37:23","slug":"harold-frank-is-not-a-d-day-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74447","title":{"rendered":"Harold Frank is not a D-Day veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the saddest story of embellishment that I hope will ever make it to these pages. <\/p>\n

Harold Frank has been celebrated as the last survivor of Gulf Company, 357th Infantry Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division’s invasion of France on D-Day, June 6th, 1944. From an interview<\/a> with Mr Franks;<\/p>\n

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From the June 6 landing on D-Day until July 4, Frank said, he and his fellow soldiers fought without relief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From an article just late last year<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Frank is the last living survivor from Company G 2nd Battalion 357th Infantry that landed at Utah Beach, 90th Division historians indicate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is that Mr Franks wasn’t with G\/357th on D-Day, he was afloat with a replacement unit, the 350th Replacement Company. In fact, according to morning reports, G\/357th was still afloat in the English Channel on D-Day and they didn’t land until June 8th – Franks joined them on June 16th;<\/p>\n

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The rest of his story is true – he was wounded and captured by Germans on July 8th at the Battle for Hill 122 – Foret de Mont Castre<\/a> and held in a POW camp for the remaining ten months of the war until his release in May 1945;<\/p>\n

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Frank’s story has become part of the history of D-Day, thanks to his collaboration with an historian, Mark Hagan, who recently learned the truth about Franks and had to pull a documentary about him because of his D-Day lie. I’m at a loss to explain why he felt the need to embellish his time in the military to include the D-Day invasion. He earned a Combat Infantryman Badge, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, for Pete’s sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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