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Charles E. Grant (1915-1985) was a US Army Staff Sergeant who served in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment during World War II.

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Charles E. Grant enlisted in the US 506th Infantry Regiment when World War II broke out, and he was one of the non-commissioned officers who attempted to mutiny against Herbert Sobel. He fought at D-Day, in Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Haguenau, and the capture of the Berchtesgaden, sustaining wounds while taking down a Flak 88 in the Netherlands on 19 September 1944. One night in July 1945, he was shot in the head by a drunken paratrooper from I Company who had killed two German soldiers, a British major, and the major's driver, and he was narrowly saved by a German brain surgeon. He still had trouble talking and had a partially paralyzed left arm after the war, and he ran a small tobacco shop in San Francisco, California until his death in 1985.

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