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World War II veteran recounts experiences

By Dan Martynowicz | November 8, 2011

Donald Schoo was drafted into the United States Army in April 1943. Six years later, he had accumulated two dozen medals, survived D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge, worked with the French Underground, met General George Patton and liberated a German...