Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert B. Charles presents Richard Lincoln, a U.S. Army veteran World War II, the book "Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome — 1944" and a handwritten letter from Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Saturday at the Maine Veterans' Home in Augusta.
A letter from James Mattis, the U.S. secretary of defense, to Richard Lincoln, a 91-year-old combat veteran from Wayne. Mattis wrote the letter ahead of an event honoring Lincoln on Saturday.
Defense Secretary James Mattis was one of several people who inscribed a book on the World War II battle of Anzio for Richard Lincoln, a 91-year-old combat veteran from Wayne who fought there.
Richard Lincoln, 91, a combat veteran from Wayne, fought in the Italian Campaign of World War II. Here he is in his military uniform at a young age.
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