'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting
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On Sept. 4, 1944, Capt. Matt Urban (born Matty Urbanowitz) was carried off a battlefield near Philippeville, Belgium. He'd been given his last rites and was not expected to survive the machine gun rounds that hit him in the neck. But not only did he survive, he returned to duty, his neck wounds unique only in that they kept him from a combat command. The truth was that they were just the latest in a long line of wounds. Urban had been fighting World War II for as long as the United States was
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