Andy Staruch
WWII | K Company, 246th Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division
Brooklynite Andy Staruch got in on the ground floor of an innovative pipe coating business but when the contract he was working on ran out, he was swept up in the early 1940's draft. He wound up going through basic training repeatedly because the Army kept poaching his unit for replacements, an unusual situation which caught the eye of Walter Winchell. (5:19)