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    A World War II hero is finally buried at home

    by Laura Newberry and Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times Jul 21, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_David Rosenkrantz was a hometown hero in the summer of 1943.

    "L.A. Paratrooper, Buddy Capture 200 Italians," read one newspaper headline. "Los Angeles Warrior 'Captures his Captors,'" read another.

    Army Staff Sgt. David Rosenkrantz had been overseas for just three months when he and another paratrooper were mistakenly dropped into an Italian unit. The Italians, 200 of them, surrendered to Rosenkrantz and his fellow soldier.

    But on Sept. 28, 1944, just a year after his victory over the Italians, Rosenkrantz was killed by German machine-gun fire during Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, a

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