Word: kirchenhausen
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...first U.S. soldier across the line was Private Carl W. Kirchenhausen of New York City, who was drafted two years ago, and whose father [now dead] had fled from Hitler's Germany to New York. He faced a battery of cameras with dull, bloodshot eyes, then ducked into the reception tent. Once there, he said stolidly: "I'm glad it came true...