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The 18-year-old World War I corporal behind Fort Benning’s renaming
The new namesake is Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military’s second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old corporal in 1918, near the end of World War I.
Trump’s move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man’s heroics at 18 in World War I
Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century. The military changed the ...
Move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man's heroics at 18 in World War I
Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old ...