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	Col. Robert Huddleston (left) and		Col. Robert Huddleston (left) and

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'''January 26, 1975 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 3:'''
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Col. Robert Huddleston (left) and
Mrs. J. H. Mann examine painting of
Mann Memorial in Best, Holland,
presented by Kees Wittebrood.

'''Mann Memory Alive'''

By BILL SALLQUIST

It’s been more than 31 years since
Pfc. Joe E. Mann, a Reardan farm
boy, sacrificed his life in the liberation
of Holland, but the memory of his
action still lingers in the minds of the
Dutch people.

Evidence of that lasting recognition
was seen here today in the presentation
of an oil painting of the Mann
Memorial in Best, Holland, to Army
Reserve officials. The painting will
hang in the Mann Army Reserve Center,
N4415 Market.

In Spokane to deliver the painting
was Kees Wittebrood, a Dutch journalist
and representative of the Netherlands
Association of Airborne Friends
which commissioned the artwork.

In his remarks at today’s presentation
ceremony, Wittebrood said that to
understand why Dutchmen still revere
Mann, "you have to go back to the 10th
of May 1940 when our country was
suddenly and wholly unexpectedly
invaded by the Germans.

"In the course of a few hours, our
country was deprived of its freedom,”
he said. "The four years of enemy
occupation which followed were years
of terror.”

The Allied landing at Normandy occurred
in June 1944, Wittebrood noted.
“And, finally, on Sept. 17, 1944, the
American 101ist Airborne Division
came tumbling out of the sky in Son,
near Eindhoven ..."

"One of these men was Joe Mann,”
who later threw himself on a German
grenade to save the lives of his
comrades, he said. Mann received the
Congressional Medal of Honor
posthumously for that act.

Wittebrood said the painting presented
today should "...remind you
all that the American nation has had,
and still has, heroes willing to offer
their lives to save others. Joe Mann, a
plain Reardan boy, a private soldier
without rank, was one of them.”

Today’s ceremony also included presentation
of the Silver Torch of Eindhoven,
a symbol of liberation, to Col.
Robert T. Huddleston, commander of
the 385th Combat Support Hospital,
Maj. Donald Fries, and the Rev. Philip
Falk, Reardan.
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