Story by Master Sgt. Timothy Lawn | 205th Theater Public Affairs Support Element | 06.04.2015
Obergefreiter (Cpl.) Joseph Hoettel talks about life, death and survival in the Second World War Italian Campaign and Coming to America. ANZIO, Italy (1944) -- The advance party of American soldiers scanning the scrubby Italian valley spied two German soldiers crawling in a small slit trench. Yelling at them to surrender, they noticed the lead German wouldn’t stop crawling. Perhaps the......
