WW2 Veteran receives french award

June 2016

91 year old Emery Horn a WW2 Veteran a former POW of the Germans and a member of the Shippensburg American Legion Post 223 was flown to France with two fellow veterans from Chambersburg Pa to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of D Day. Emery and his two companions were presented the highest award of the French Government the French Presidential Medal of Honor. Emery is pictured on the right.

Horn was drafted and assigned to the Rainbow Division's 242nd Infantry. He joined the war effort in Europe after D-Day. From Marseille, he made his way along the Rhine River to Hatten, France, and then the Battle of the Bulge where was captured on Jan. 9, 1945. Wounded with shrapnel, he suffered ulcers during his seven months in the POW camp. Emery is a member of the Shippensburg American Legion Post 223
Horn was drafted and assigned to the Rainbow Division's 242nd Infantry. He joined the war effort in Europe after D-Day. From Marseille, he made his way along the Rhine River to Hatten, France, and then the Battle of the Bulge where was captured on Jan. 9, 1945. Wounded with shrapnel, he suffered ulcers during his seven months in the POW camp.

Harold Angle served with the 28th Infantry Division in Germany. He survived a dud grenade thrown at him and bullet that struck his helmet and lodged between his shirt and undershirt. He gave all the credit to a pop-up-prayer that soldiers prayed.

Glenn Angle volunteered so he could join the Army Air Corps. He had his civilian pilot’s license, but he was assigned to the 608th tank destroyer battalion. It was two years before he succeeded in transferring to the air corps. Trained to fly a C-46 with a glider in tow, he was two weeks away from taking paratroopers and infantry to the Pacific Theater when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

The three veterans attended small ceremonies that were scattered across the wide beaches and cliffs where nearly 160,000 Allied forces landed at daybreak on June 6,1944. By the end of August the U.S., British, Canadian and French troops had liberated Paris. In late January 1945 the Germans had mounted the last major offensive of the war in Europe