Scratched into the metal was: "Lt. Wal. Lippincott, 712 Tank Bn,"

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For more than a decade, Nobles had been researching the history of his family, including his maternal grandmother's only sibling, Lt. Wallace Lippincott Jr. - a Chester-born Quaker from Swarthmore who after graduating from the University of Delaware went off to war, drove a tank into the Battle of the Bulge, and never returned.

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The followup -

In a book titled Tanks for the Memories, newspaperman Aaron Elson has written of the ambush of the 712th Tank Battalion that took Wallace Lippincott's life at age 25. He'd just joined up with the company two weeks earlier. He had orders to advance in the Luxembourg woods at night. Six German antitank guns awaited them. The lead tank took a direct hit. Three men died - the driver, the loader, and the commander, Lt. Lippincott.

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