This is a great story about the uncle of Jim Grossman, one of our contributors ( who served in the 763rd) and it talks about the 8 Grossman boys ( his Dad and Uncle's ) who all helped out the war effort ( 6 served in combat roles) during WWII.
Jim writes ...
Here is a Today Show piece about my Uncle Carl Grossman, the last of 8 brothers from Pittsburgh who served in WW II at the same time. Uncle Carl, in his 90's ,still works, as a greeter at a Walmart, in a suburb of Detroit. The interviews with him were done there and at the WW II Museum in New Orleans. He was a special guest of Tom Brokaw the weekend they dedicated a new wing therein November 2009. I have also attached a story from the Detroit News. The Today Show piece, shown right before Christmas in 2009, won the Emmy Award for best feature story on a national news show. My Dad was one of two brothers who were exempted because of age and having two children, but he is the one mentioned in the piece who worked on building parts for the atom bomb at the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. The old pictures and movies in the Today Show piece were mostly taken by my Dad.
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