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General Summers received multiple Legion of Merit awards, a Silver Star, and, after being wounded, a Purple Heart. He was wounded in February, 1945, in Germany during the advance of General George Patton’s Third Army. General Summers also received the Norwegian Order of St. Olav, the Commander of the Order of the British Empire medal, and the French Croix de Guerre. In April, 1945, the general was assigned to command Task Force "A", which was to go to the Oslo Zone in Norway to disarm Germans and repatriate them to Germany. As the center of German and Norwegian administration, the Oslo command assisted in many of the arrests, imprisonments, and in some cases executions of German sympathizers and German occupational government officials. Summers returned to the United States in December, 1946, and retired from the U.S. Army in June, 1947.
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Colonel, Summers joined a task force that established the Trinidad Base Command in Trinidad, which was charged with defending shipping in the Caribbean against German U-boats. Initially serving as a Personnel Officer, Summer then commanded the 33rd Infantry Regiment. Late in 1941,
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