Bennett Stampes was in Belgium when Germany launched the 1944 Battle of the Bulge. An artillery blast nearly killed him but he went on to outlive two wives.
Bennett Stampes , a San Antonio veteran who was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive of World War II, has died just days after celebrating his 100th birthday. The onetime Army staff sergeant was feted last Wednesday at a Cracker Barrel restaurant near San Antonio International Airport. Surrounded by family, friends and well wishers, he talked of how shrewd investments helped him enjoy a comfortable life.
When an artillery round knocked him unconscious, the blast left him covered in dirt and snow, and he went unnoticed by German troops. He awoke in a field hospital to find both his arms in bandages. “I still have scars on my arms,' he recalled many years later. Stampes was among 1.1 million men, including 600,000 Americans, caught up in the Bulge, a last-chance German offensive launched on Dec. 16, 1944.
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