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Winter gear, young private first class curry was a rifleman guarding a bridge crossing when the germans chose to advance. frank took it upon himself to turn them away. he repeatedly stood up and opened himself up to hostile incoming enemy fire, killing several german troops himself. but the germans, they also had tanks, and so using a combination of bazookas and anti-tank grenades, frank crippled four of those before rescuing five americans who had been pinned down by fire. so if you don t count his silver star and his three purple hearts, frank was then awarded the medal of honor seven months later in the field in france. so those of you who knew an old man named frank curry, tall, hard of hearing, rather stooped, curly white hair, he was that francis s. curry who on one day in 1944 was the very best of us ....

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