At the age of 20, he was assigned to the 34th Infantry Division Red Bull unit and led a platoon of soldiers from Naples Italy to the border of Switzerland. “I had three machine gun squads ...

A Soldier assigned to 83rd Infantry Division “Thunderbolt” in World War II, Neppel was ... of a machinegun squad defending an approach to the village of Birgel, Germany, on December 14 ...