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Carl Lennart Thorson

1918–2013

Staff Sergeant (medic; VA #VeteranOfTheDay)

U.S. Army; 134th Medical Detachment, 35th Division (Nebraska National Guard); Omaha Beach (about a month after D-Day); Hill 122 near St. Lô; wounded by friendly mortar shrapnel Sep 1944

Documented decorations

Carl Lennart “Len” Thorson’s Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his World War II medical service in Europe. This decorations page records those two types from that VA sentence. It will not invent a Combat “V” or an oak-leaf tally the paragraph does not carry.

Drafted in February 1941 and raised in Nebraska by Swedish immigrant parents, Thorson served as a medic with the 134th Medical Detachment of the 35th Division. His unit landed at Omaha Beach about a month after D-Day and fought through the advance that included Hill 122 near St. Lô. In September 1944 friendly mortar fire put shrapnel in his head; he lay nearly ten hours before care and later received a metal plate. He discharged as a staff sergeant in September 1945, farmed later in Hay Springs, and died in January 2013 at ninety-five. The Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart are the published decoration names here.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

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