William 'Willie' Kellerman is alive today because of a daring escape he made during the war back in 1944, and his incredible will to survive a serious injury less than a year later.
FORT HAMILTON, Brooklyn -- The United States Army awarded a Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal to a 97-year-old World War II veteran Tuesday.William"Willie" Kellerman is alive today because of a daring escape he made during the war back in 1944, and his incredible will to survive a serious injury less than a year later.
He was captured by the Germans on July 4, 1944, and was being marched to a prison camp in the middle of the night when he managed to escape."That's exactly what he did that day when he escaped the Nazis, Jeanie Kellerman said."He literally stepped out of line rolled under a hedge."He made it hundreds of miles trying to get to Switzerland. He had to steal a bike for most of it, but then he got a flat.
He was transported to a field hospital in Czechoslovakia, where the wound in his leg became infected. He remained there until the end of the war.So why is he receiving his awards 77 years later? They were apparently never processed due to an administrative oversight.
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