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TIL Charley Havlat was the last US Army soldier to be killed in combat in Europe during WWII. On May 7, 1945 he was killed while on patrol in an ambush by German soldiers about 10 minutes before news reached his unit that a cease fire was in effect. He died just 6 hours before Germany surrendered.

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