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  • Local native to get Legion of Honor (Gen. Ungerleider)

    06/04/2004 10:10:13 AM PDT · by Born Conservative · 102+ views
    A Carbondale native will receive France's highest honor for his part in the D-Day invasion that led to the country's liberation from the Nazis and marked the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. On Sunday's 60th anniversary of the invasion, the French government will award the Legion of Honor to retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Alvin Ungerleider, 82, who led a platoon on Normandy's Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. "I yelled out, 'Step where I step!'" Gen. Ungerleider remembered in a Tuesday telephone interview from his home in Virginia. A lieutenant and platoon leader at...