Word: volturno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...Dallas attorney named Paul Douglas Lindsey heard of his arrest, immediately announced that Pabel had saved his life during the fighting on the Volturno, and offered to help him in any feasible way. Pabel, he said, had found him lying wounded in a ditch, had reassured him, and then-to keep from drawing U.S. artillery fire on the attorney's refuge-led his squad of Germans 100 yards away...