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  • USASOC awards CIBs to WWII vets

    08/15/2005 5:46:31 PM PDT · by SandRat · 5 replies · 231+ views
    ARNEWS ^ | Aug 15, 2005 | Sgt. Joe Healy
    CALGARY, Alberta (Army News Service, Aug. 14, 2005) — About 100 Canadian and American World War II veterans of a joint special operations unit received Combat Infantryman Badges Aug. 12. The veterans had been assigned to the First Special Service Force, a one-of-a-kind unit of both Americans and Canadians that fought side-by-side in the Aleutians, France and Italy during the early 1940s. Its members, now in their 80s and 90s, celebrated their 59th annual reunion Aug. 12-14 in Calgary. A formal awards ceremony culminated the two-day celebration as Lt. Gen. Philip R. Kensinger Jr., commander, U.S. Army Special Operations Command,...