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AWARD

 

   Erling Jensen, Class 42-05


Six Battle Campaigns In World War II

 

From Erling Jensen's military records we were able to determine that Lt. Jensen fought as a Signal Officer in the Tunisian Campaign, was present and fought in the Normandy Invasion, fought in the Northern France Campaign, followed by the Ardennes Campaign, Rhineland Campaign and Central Europe Campaign. Few Army Signal OCS graduates have fought in as many campaigns as this one Officer did.

In part because he spoke a little Danish, and too because as a civilian he worked as a long distance test board serviceman for his local phone company, he found himself assigned to the Signal Corps. His records show a man who started off in the enlisted men's Signal Corps training program, only to find himself transferred when he finished there to Officer training in Signal OCS. 

A native of Hudson, Wisconsin, Candidate Jensen served his country well, being awarded the American Defense Service Ribbon, the American Theater Ribbon, followed again a second time with a Silver Star added to it, and incredibly a third time too, this time with a Bronze Star. He was also awarded 5 O/S Service Bars and the World War II Victory Medal.

After all of Officer Jensen's time in the war in Europe, he was finally sent home. He left Europe as a Captain on 1 November 1945, and came ashore in America on 13 November 1945. A man with blond hair and striking blue eyes, Captain Jensen had gone from being born in Denmark on 18 August 1905, to being a true American hero. He represented the best of the best, the men who made up America's Greatest Generation.

We raise a glass in toast to Captain Erling Jensen.

 

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Captain Erling Jenses, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII   Captain Erling Jenses, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII 

Captain Erling Jensen, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII   Captain Erling Jensen, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII

Captain Erling Jensen, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII  Captain Erling Jensen, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII 

Captain Erling Jensen, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII  Captain Erling Jensen, Army Signal Corps OCS WWII 

 

       

This page originally posted 01 July, 2016 


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