Recognition...finally. ABC
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A decorated Houston soldier who survived the Battle of the Bulge in World War II is now receiving more recognition - a Purple Heart with three oak clusters. He was wounded four times and held by Nazis, but his fight to set things right isn't over.[...]
Power was just a teenager when he was put in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge.
"You're fighting with a bayonet at the end of your rifle against tanks, mortar fire, machine guns," Power said.
His division was tasked with holding a 25-mile line against the Germans when he was wounded by mortar rounds and a sniper's bullet. He was later a prisoner of war before escaping.
However, after his service, Power's records were lost, burned in a fire at a military archive facility in 1973. Since then, Power has fought to prove what happened to him.
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