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SUMMARY:Famous Veterans Birthdays - May 27th
DESCRIPTION:Famous Veterans Celebrating Birthdays Today (May 27th):\nFamous Veterans Born May 27\, 1923: \nHenry Kissinger – American politician\, diplomat and Secretary of State and National Security Advisor (Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford) – (ARMY WWII). \nKissinger underwent basic training at Camp Croft in Spartanburg\, South Carolina. On June 19\, 1943\, while stationed in South Carolina\, at the age of 20 years\, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. The army sent him to study engineering at Lafayette College\, Pennsylvania under the Army Specialized Training Program\, but the program was canceled and Kissinger was reassigned to the 84th Infantry Division. There\, he made the acquaintance of Fritz Kraemer\, a fellow immigrant from Germany who noted Kissinger’s fluency in German and his intellect and arranged for him to be assigned to the military intelligence section of the division. Kissinger saw combat with the division and volunteered for hazardous intelligence duties during the Battle of the Bulge. \nDuring the American advance into Germany\, Kissinger\, though only a private (the lowest military rank)\, was put in charge of the administration of the city of Krefeld because of a lack of German speakers on the division’s intelligence staff. Within eight days he had established a civilian administration. Kissinger was then reassigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC)\, where he became a CIC Special Agent holding the enlisted rank of sergeant. He was given charge of a team in Hanover assigned to tracking down Gestapo officers and other saboteurs\, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. In June 1945\, Kissinger was made commandant of the Bensheim metro CIC detachment\, Bergstrasse district of Hesse\, with responsibility for denazification of the district. Although he possessed absolute authority and powers of arrest\, Kissinger took care to avoid abuses against the local population by his command. \nIn 1946\, Kissinger was reassigned to teach at the European Command Intelligence School at Camp King and\, as a civilian employee following his separation from the army\, continued to serve in this role. \nKissinger recalled that his experience in the army “made me feel like an American”. \nHenry Kissinger passed away at the age of 100 on November 29\, 2023
URL:https://famousveterans.com/event/famous-veterans-birthdays-may-27th/2027-05-27/
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