A sergeant eventually dragged him to safety.ĭole earned two Purple Hearts and was awarded the Bronze Star, but doctors weren't sure he'd survive. He called for help, and two medics who tried to rescue him were gunned down. "I thought they were missing," he said on his campaign website. Lying facedown in the dirt, Dole recalled being unable to see or move his arms.
His collarbone was shattered, part of his spine was smashed and his right arm was dangling from his side. Seconds later, an exploding shell ripped into Dole's right shoulder and back. (Arnie Sachs/CNP via Getty Images)ĭole crawled across the battlefield on his stomach and then pulled the wounded soldier into a foxhole. 19, 1976, after they were nominated as the party's Vice Presidential and Presidential candidates. Bob Dole and President Gerald Ford smile and raise their hands during Republican National Convention at the Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo., Aug. But as Dole climbed a rocky field, his radio man was hit. The platoon leader was ordered to take out the sniper and gunners. A Nazi sniper, perched in a farmhouse, began firing at the battalion, according to Dole's 1996 campaign website. It was April, and a stone wall and a field of landmines trapped the Americans in an exposed area. His fellow soldiers later described it as a "suicide mission." But Dole was wounded during "Operation Craftsmen," a spring offensive in Italy that was meant to overtake German troops scattered in the hills and valleys of the Apennine Mountains and gain control of northern Italy.ĭole's platoon was to take Hill 913. It was originally intended to be a group of "skiing soldiers" to fight the Germans in the snow and mountains. In 1945, Dole was assigned to the 85th Regime, 10th Mountain Division. He later attended Army Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning in Georgia and, by the end of 1944, graduated as a second lieutenant in the Army infantry. He had hoped to become a doctor and trained in the medical corps at Camp Barkley in Texas, according to a Dole Institute timeline. Dole left the university in 1943 to enroll in the Army.
In 1941, he graduated from Russell High School and enrolled at the University of Kansas, becoming the first in his family to go to college - thanks to a $300 loan from a Russell banker.Ī year into college, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
In school, he was an honor student, sports editor of his school newspaper and he lettered in football, basketball and track. His neighbors recalled him growing up as "an all-American boy," according to his 1996 presidential campaign website. Hoeven after the House rejected a farm bill promoted by President Kennedy, June.
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