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U.S. Army Soldier Fought to Liberate Rome During World War II

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On a cold night in Anzio, Italy, in 1944, U.S. Army Cpl. Thaddeus Pecorak was too tired to dig a foxhole, so he crawled under an American tank and fell asleep. When he woke up the next morning, the tank’s belly was touching his nose. The tank had sunk in the mud overnight, forcing Pecorak to wiggle himself out from underneath. “If it was real super-wet ground I wouldn’t be sitting here today,” he recalled in a 2017 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)…
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DVIDS broke the news in on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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