America’s youngest veteran, Private Robert Kelso, aged 14, of Houston, Texas, who wears the Purple Heart and two battle stars, for combat in Germany, cannot mako up liis mind whether he wants to go.to * lie Pacific or return to school. He enlisted when he was 13, giving his ago as 18. Kelso was stabbed during a grapple with a Nazi Stormtrooper whom ho shot.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 212, 7 August 1945, Page 2
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