GA HR1625

Georgia House Resolution commending Retired Master Sergeant Louis C. Graziano, born in 1923, who is celebrating his 103rd birthday and is the last surviving World War II veteran to witness Germany's surrender

Landed on Omaha Beach with the Third Wave on D-Day (June 6, 1944), driving a gasoline tanker truck under machine gun fire, and later fought in the Battle of the Bulge where he nearly lost his feet to frostbite

Served as utilities foreman for the 102nd Infantry Field Artillery Battalion Special Headquarters Command in Reims, France, responsible for American-occupied buildings including the Little Red Schoolhouse where Germany signed the surrender document

Personally escorted the German delegation to meet General Dwight D. Eisenhower after witnessing the surrender signing; was knighted by the Consul General of France in 2021 as a recipient of the French Legion Medal of Honor

Met his wife Eula "Bobbie" Shaneyfelt, a Women's Army Corps staff sergeant, while stationed in Reims; the couple raised five children in the United States