Description Martin Sylvester grew up in Brooklyn and on April 4, 1943 turned 18 and registered for the draft. Martin, a Jewish American, landed on Utah Beach on June 7, 1944 (D-Day +1), fought in The Battle of the Hürtgen Forest and Battle of the Bulge serving with U.S. ARMY Company G, 12th Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. Martin didn't know it until he returned home from the war but his brother Ernie was killed while in combat in the Hürtgen Forest. During the Battle of the Bulge Martin was wounded and taken prisoner. Martin would eventually escape only to be captured again, escape again, be captured again and escape again before being taken in by a German family and finally liberated by a US Army advanced armored unit and flown to a hospital in Paris. "At the hospital I weighed 80 pounds. I had lice and fleas. I was told that my leg would have become gangrenous and without treatment I would probably have lost it in two weeks", from Martin's memoir, "The War Years: June 1943 - December 1945".

Event Date 12/28/2022

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