First Sergeant Daniel Duane took over as the senior non-commissioned officer for Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment on July 8, 1868. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Hermann Rauschning
Hermann Rauschning, Gauleiter of Danzig, born July 8, 1887 in Thorn (West Prussia), president of the Danzig senate, fled to Switzerland in 1936, author of three books: Conversations with Hitler and The Voice of Destruction and Men of Chaos, died February 8, 1982 in the United States, on Adolf Hitler:
“This man Hitler would never have become anything, except perhaps a half-crazy extra waiter for the Sunday afternoons in some suburban café garden, had it not been for the forces behind him, which he used and which used him.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)
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On October 7, 1944, an artillery shell blast concusses squad leader Fred Naugle at 1700 hours, his second wound. He is evacuated to the 2nd Evacuation Hospital at Eupen, transferred to the 130th Station Hospital, and then to the 129th General Hospital. Fred arrived in Company B in Normandy on July 8, 1944; he was wounded two days later by artillery shrapnel to his left ankle. (Dying Hard: Company B, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division in World War II)