Kamis, 08 Februari 2018

Valor: The Navy’s First POW Hero

Edouard Izac U.S. Navy Medal of Honor North Atlantic and Germany June–October 1918 Edouard Izac was born in Iowa in 1891, but grew up speaking German at home. (His father hailed from the German-speaking area of Alsace, France, while his mother’s parents had emigrated from an area of Germany whose dialect was similar to that …

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