Urban Valor: the podcast
Urban Valor: the podcast
Urban Valor
WWII Soldier Tells the Story of the Deadliest Night of His Life!
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Mar 9, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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In this episode of the Urban Valor Podcast, we sit down with a World War II Army veteran who survived one of the deadliest moments of the European campaign...the Rhine River crossing! And later walked through a liberated Nazi death camp! At just 19 years old, Paul A. Groves was drafted into the U.S. Army and assigned as an infantry messenger with E Company, 89th Infantry Division under General Patton. In January 1945, he landed in France before pushing toward the Rhine River — one of t...