On This Date in Minnesota History: January 26

January 26, 1942 – “Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson was the first enlisted man to [disembark] with the first American Expeditionary Force in Europe in WWII [on Ulster soil on this date].”
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/78/a2058978.shtml

Private Milburn Henke

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