World War II Honoree

Francis Joseph Corr, III

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Albany, New York

Honored By

Michael Lynett

Joined the U.S. Army during WWII. He served honorably and courageously as a medic in the Aleutian Islands and in the European Theater of Operations from 1942 to 1945. Before being shipped to the Aleutian Islands, he worked and was trained in anesthesiology at the Presidio, home to the Letterman Army Medical Center, in San Francisco. He worked to save lives and limbs of American troops who were returning from Attu in the Aleutian Islands suffering from wounds and severe frostbite. After serving at the Presidio, he was sent to Kiska and Adak where he was stationed for 14 months. He was then sent to France and Germany where he worked to save thousands of prisoners when the Dachau Concentration Camp was liberated in April of 1945.