When Major Billy C. Hall left high school to fight in WWII, he was so young that his recruiter had to lie about the vet’s age on his application.
“Men like [Hall] aren’t just ‘the greatest generation,’” friend and fellow veteran Dwight Hanson said. “They’re ‘men of legend.’”
With 27 years of service spanning three wars—which earned him a bronze star and other honors—the 96-year-old Hall is one of the few remaining veterans who fought in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
At 15, he joined the Marines, made his way to Japan, and enlisted shortly before the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941….
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