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Army's battlefront hero Shelby rises to lieutenant on field
In his first year and a half in the Army John Shelby, a former cowboy and bartender, becomes a second lieutenant after a field promotion. Decorated and famed for grit, he commands a platoon from a German pillbox CP and is noted as one of the division’s toughest mortarmen.
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Aachen
John Shelby
Shelby
First Army
Battle-Commission System
Kasserine Pass
Africa
Edmund Driscoll
Gafsa
Terry Allen
Allen
Mateur
John Shaughnessy
16Th Infantry
France
Jaco Brookline
Mass
Oran