🇺🇲A Salute to Pfc. Harry E. Lorenzo Veteran of Operation Torch and the Battle of the Bulge
Pfc. Harry E. Lorenzo, 1849 Genesee Street, Buffalo, NY, served in the Army during World War II as a paratrooper with the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion. He took part in Operation Torch and the Battle of the Bulge. Here he is shown holding his pup "Kaput" near Katharinenberg, Germany. (April 7, 1945)
At the end of the war, he volunteered to serve as an investigator with graves registration units searching for and relocating American and British paratroopers killed and buried by the Germans during the assault on the Rhine River bridge at Arnhem.
Returning from service, he attended the University of Buffalo and earned his juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1951. He entered a law practice with his brother Arthur and specialized in civil litigation. Harry was a life member of USS Maine Post 73, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a former member of Milton J. Brounshidle Post 205, American Legion.
Pfc. Harry Lorenzo passed away on February 19, 2017. He was 92 years old. Lest We Forget.
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