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' wiLii us main purpose Doing to patrol coastal areas.Slays With Tank Despile WoundsThe 185th General Hospital, England.—A piece of shrapnel struck Corporal Howard L. Dcneen. 25. o( 510 Baltimore avenue, Cumberland, Maryland, In the shoulder when a nearby tank was hit on a hill at Trier, Germany, but he continued tn command his tnnk until a direct hit knocked it out and wounded him again.He was awarded the Purple Heart at this United States Army general hospital in England, where his ward officer. Captain William H. Horan, of Manlinsset, Long Island, New York, said, Cpl. Denoen is well on the road to recovery.”“We were fighting in Trier and about half of the town was captured, said Cpl. Denecn. Mv tnnk and two others were sent to take a hill on the outskirts. On the hillside an 88 hit my lieutenant’s tank about 25 yards from me and a piece of shrapnel hit me in the left shoulder as I stood in the turret. I snathe hole in my jacket and felt a sting but I didn't pay much attention to it.We fired at. a haystack from where the fire might have conic and blew it to bits, then all of a sudden an 88 hit our turret and exploded inside. I saw sparks and a mass of black smoke, and my legs were numb. I yelled for the crew to get out and tried to step out myself t but I couldn’t put my weight on mv; legs. 'I hoisted myself out and fell tolt the ground and the other four menaiigot out. My lieutenant and his men -had escaped from the other tank s and helped me through a hedgerow it where a medical aid soldier treated me. I was carried 200 yards to a! concrete building and was evacuated'! when it got dark.Cpl, Dcneen’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Dcneen, live at the Cumberland address. His brother Walter, is a sergeant in the Army in New Guinea. Cpl. Dcneen entered tile Army on November 16 1942, trained at Port Benning and Cflnin OnrHrtti ^oapaIa
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Cumberland Evening Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Thu, Jun 07, 1945
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