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As it would turn out, that was just where For his courageous service, Franklin was
he found himself. Under none other than awarded three Purple Hearts, two Bronze Star
General George S. Patton, Franklin was Medals, one Silver Star Medal, five battle stars,
dispatched to Normandy, France. His and Victory and Occupation medals from the
combat assignments took him throughout U.S. military. He was also recognized with the
Central Europe—being wounded twice French Legion de Honor Medal, and the WWII
in Luxembourg, helping to liberate the Liberation medal from the Czech Republic—
Mauthausen Concentration Camp in which he revisited in 2017 as honorary Grand
Austria, and suffering wounds once more Marshal for the Liberation Anniversary
in the liberation of Czechoslovakia—before Celebration in Pilsen, CZ—and was most
completing his duties and receiving an recently awarded the Order of Merit of the
honorable discharge in 1946. Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for assisting in
the country’s liberation from Nazi Germany.
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