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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"More Hitlers have served in the US Armed Forces than Trumps."
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This is William Patrick Hitler. He served in the United States Navy 1944-1947. He received the WWII Victory Medal and Purple Heart. His uncle was Adolf Hitler. You read that correctly. More Hitlers have served in the US Armed Forces than Trumps.
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"More Hitlers have served in the US Armed Forces than Trumps." (Original Post)
Tactical Peek
Jan 2020
OP
Drumpf (Trump) family members would have been serving on the cliffs above Normandy.
keithbvadu2
Jan 2020
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tblue37
(65,502 posts)1. K&R for visibility. nt
JCMach1
(27,581 posts)2. Even Uncle Adolf was a war hero (albeit German) before he went CrayCray
so has at least one point over the Drumpf's...
Who I believe also absconded from military duty back in the old Reich... Plus ca Change...
keithbvadu2
(36,981 posts)3. Drumpf (Trump) family members would have been serving on the cliffs above Normandy.
Drumpf (Trump) family members would have been serving on the cliffs above Normandy.
appalachiablue
(41,184 posts)4. Drunk History: Nephew Willie Hitler Sticks It To His Uncle Adolph
..(Wiki) Immigration to the United States: In January 1939 the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst brought him [Willie] and his mother to the United States for a lecture tour. He and his mother were stranded when World War II broke out. After making a special request to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, William was eventually cleared to join the United States Navy in 1944; he moved to Sunnyside, Queens in New York.
William Patrick Hitler was drafted into the United States Navy during World War II as a Pharmacist's Mate (a designation later changed to Hospital Corpsman) until he was discharged in 1947. On reporting for duty, the induction officer asked his name. "Hitler," he replied. "Glad to see you, Hitler," the officer replied, thinking Hitler was joking. "My name's Hess." He was wounded in action during the war and awarded the Purple Heart.
Later life: After being discharged from the Navy, William Hitler changed his surname to "Stuart-Houston," a reference to Houston Stewart Chamberlain who had been one of Adolf Hitler's role models. In 1947, Stuart-Houston married Phyllis Jean-Jacques, who had been born in Germany in the mid-1920s. After their relationship began, William and Phyllis, along with Bridget, tried to live a life of anonymity in the United States.
They moved to Patchogue, Long Island, where William used his medical training to establish a business that analyzed blood samples for hospitals. The couple had four sons: Alexander Adolf (b. 1949), Louis (b. 1951), Howard Ronald (19571989), and Brian William (b. 1965). William Stuart-Houston died on 14 July 1987, in Patchogue...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston
Patchogue, Long Island..hmm