WWII Veteran * Big Stone County

Benneth M. Hagen 

Entered Service: February 10, 1941

Branch of Service: Infantry

Trained at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana; Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Overseas: April 29, 1942

Theatre of Operation: European.

Engagements: Algerian, Tunisian, Naples, Foggia, Central Germany.  

Medals Earned: Combat Badge.

Returned to U.S.:  June 9, 1945 

Discharged: August 24, 1945, Camp Chaffee, Arkansas.

Rank: Sergeant

Total Months in Service: Fifty-four and one-half.

Taken prisoner by Germans and was a Prisoner of War in Germany. Captured in Italy on November 9, 1943 with Sidney Martinson. 

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