Bronx WWII hero, 97, ex-POW who escaped the Nazis and was sh

Willie Kellerman, who escaped Nazi captivity and survived a pair of gunshot wounds will receive a Prisoner of War Medal and the Purple Heart Tuesday at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn.

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