re: Dec 16th began the Battle of the Bulge.

Another interesting note we got out of him at one point as he got older.

Before he got drafted, he was working in a factory in the state where he ended up assembling what became the duck boats for the Normandy invasion.

My mom pointed out later that he had all his medals up and did all his American Legion conventions for what he did in uniform and the single most significant thing he may have done got completely overlooked, even by himself, given how important those boats were to the invasion.