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Wounded Empcrian Recovers in EnglandA XJ. S. Army General Hospital, England—-Wounded by shrapnel in France, 30 days after leaving the XJnited States, Pvt. Justin d.• Groundwater, 34, of Emporia, is now recovering at this Army general hospital in England.-itv. Private Groundwater, who has been awarded the Purple Heart, will be ready for duty soon, according to Capt. Edwin Abramson, ward surgeon, from Philadelphia. Groundwater joined an infantry di-vision in France as they attacked a bill in a march toward Brest.We took, the hill after some pi'Ctuy heavy opposition and went on through St. Mark, a small town on the read to Brest.” the infantryman Mid. “At Brest the Jerries were ■using every kind of weapon they •could to delay our taking the city. Beveral times they fired heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns at us point blank.”Private Groundwater was wound- ■ ed by shrapnel from one of the i heavy artillery guns and' received ■ treatment at a battalion aid station and an evacuation hospital 'before crossing the channel in an LST to the hospital in England. (A former employe oi_ the Denver t Tramway, Denver, Colo., he entered ■ the army in January, 1944, and received bis training at Camn Fannin, Tex., before going overseas’ His wife and children live at 17 East Twelfth and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Groundwater, at 206 Constitution, Emporia.
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Emporia Gazette
Emporia, Kansas, US
Fri, Dec 08, 1944
Page 7
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