WILLIAMSVILLE, NY — After enlisting in 1944 and being honorably discharged in 1946, George L. Klein was finally awarded the medals he was meant to receive in person decades earlier.
Klein, a Williamsville resident, enlisted in the US Navy Reserve after graduating high school. During his time in the service, he served as a Radioman Third Class with the 7th Amphibious Force.
However, upon his discharge from the service, Klein never received the medals other soldiers received.
“It started last year, I was talking to my dad, I asked him about his medals. He said he never got them,” Richard Klein, George’s son, told those in attendance on Monday. “Congressman Tim Kennedy here, he put me in touch with Walt, and they got the ball moving, and we got the medals in time for his 100th birthday.”…