Vincent Speranza

Vincent Speranza

During the Battle of the Bulge, an American paratrooper named Vincent Speranza filled his helmet with beer from a destroyed pub and brought it to wounded soldiers in a nearby church. The story of him doing this is so famous in Bastogne that they have a local beer brand in his honor.

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