It was July 4, 1944, less than a month after the U.S.-British-Canadian invasion of Normandy, and American boys weren’t celebrating with fireworks, but engaged in desperate warfare with Hitler’s battle-hardened legions to liberate our oldest ally, France, from the Nazi boot. A 19-year-old Jewish kid from the Bronx out of James Monroe High School, PFC Willie Kellerman , who landed on Utah Beach on D-Day Plus 5, June 11, lost his freedom that Independence Day when he was captured and ended up with other POWs in the hands of the SS . On the forced march towards Germany , Kellerman...