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The TRUE story of one WWII soldier's selfless act of valor
that one town never forgot.
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Site where the field kitchen was set up in Eschweiler
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 Site where the field kitchen was set-up in Eschweiler, as it looks today. |  The "barn" where captured soldiers from the 28th Cav. Recon Troop were held prior to marching east to their eventual POW camps, has changed little since the war. |  Cafe Halt as it is today, at the crossroad near where the convoy was ambushed. |
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 The Huberty House after the war. Virginia Huberty looks out from a second story window. |  Members of the Pletschett family standing in front of their house after the war. |  Pletschett house left and the Huberty house on the right as they look today, |
 The Pletschett house after the war. The upper right window is the room where George and Cletus stayed. |  Victoria Pletschet, July 2017 |  George Mergenthaler, Charles Stansbury & Cletus La Fond (L-R) in Eschweiler |
 Eschweiler, 1954. Photo taken by Alice Mergenthaler |  The 28th Cavalry Recon Troop at Pen y Coed mansion outside St. Clears, Wales; March 1944 (George Mergenthaler is in the back row, last soldier on the right) |  George Mergenthaler outside St. Mauritius, December 1944 |
 A disabled Sherman tank outside St. Mauritius, July 1945 |  George Mergenthaler, Charles Stansbury, Cletus La Fond pose with one of the troop's M8 scout vehicles, December 1944 |  George Mergenthaler's 1943 Princeton University yearbook picture. (colorization: Marina Amaral) |
 St. Mauritius in Eschweiler, 1945 |  St. Mauritius in Eschweiler, Luxembourg as it looks today |  Plaster cast of George Mergenthaler greeting visitors to St. Mauritius |
 The hand painted mural behind the altar in St. Mauritius in Eschweiler, Luxembourg |  The roadside monument a mile down the road from Eschweiler near Cafe Halt. |  The Mergenthaler Children (L-R) Herman, Eugene, Fritz, Pauline |
 Alice Mergenthaler on her wedding day in 1910 |  Pauline Mergenthaler, 18 years old |  Nora Mitchell plays in the snow on the town green in Rye, NY, 1922. |
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