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  • Vet describes WWII ordeal for posterity

    07/04/2003 8:49:14 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 8 replies · 256+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 04 2003 | BRENDA WARNER ROTZOLL
    What Harry Wilkinson remembers most about World War II is the cold. More than half a century later, his feet still hurt sometimes because they were so badly frostbitten during the Battle of the Bulge. "The cold was terrible because there was no place to go to get out of it," says Wilkinson, 78, a retired watchmaker from Chicago who now lives in Oak Forest. "Whenever you found a place to sleep at night in a sleeping bag, it was usually outside because, if I went into a building, they were going to blow it apart. I was in General...