On Sept. 13, 1944, members of the U.S. First Infantry Division breached Hitler’s Siegfried Line, become the first American soldiers during World War II to tread in battle on German soil. Among those soldiers was First Lieutenant Frank Kolb.
Kolb passed away in 1970 but was remembered over the Memorial Day weekend by Kentucky Forward guest columnist Berry Craig. At the time, all of the newspapers got Kolb’s last name wrong, spelling it as Kalb. Here’s how that mistake happened:
When Kolb and his men breached the Siegfried Line, a Stars and Stripes reporter interviewed the young lieutenant.
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