February 5, 2013 - France has bestowed its highest honor, the Legion of Merit, on six American veterans of World War II.February 5, 2013 - Veteran George Pulakos of Indian Land has many horrific images lodged in his head from the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, but the one he remembers most vividly is that of all the bodies.
snip Two of the six are from the Charlotte area, Pulakos and 91-year-old Clyde Polk of Charlotte, a U.S. Air Force veteran who served as an armorer with the 507th Fighter Squadron of the 404th Bombardment Group.
The other honorees : Elbert Davis of Hampstead, Dewitt Wells of Winston-Salem, David Gordon of Cary and John Harmon of Saluda, S.C. A sixth veteran, Frank Pruitt of Spartanburg, recently died so the award was given to his family. read more>>>
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