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Staff Sergeant Paul L. McCarthy
By Krista Finstad Hanson For the Times Prior to U.S. entry in World War II, the 5th Division of the U.S. Army was reactivated on October 16, 1939 at Fort McClellan, Alabama. In 1940 they trained at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Benjamin Harrison, Fort Custer …