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Battalion Sergeants Major ~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association History Project ~ |
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This Page Last Updated 2 April 2016 |
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Based on the limited records currently available it has been verified that CSM Pauli served with the Battalion in 1970-1971.
If you can provide any additional details of CSM Pauli's tour with the battalion, his military biography or photographs, please use the Email link at the top of this page. |
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In 1956 then SFC Peter D. Pauli of Madison, Wisconsin was assigned to the battalion as a new patrol supervisor. The German-born Pauli has the distinction of serving as a sergeant assigned to a U.S. Army Military Intelligence collection point in Germany when he freed his father from a political prisoner internment camp at the end of World War II. |
He had discovered his father among the minor Nazi officials being held by the U.S. Army. Released in the custody of his son, the former stonemason returned to his pre-war monument business. Born in Bavaria in 1926, Pauli was brought to the United States by his mother in 1937. |
Because he spoke German fluently, he served as an interpreter in the 69th Division’s order of battle section. After a tour of duty in the U.S., Pauli returned to Germany where he was stationed 120 miles from his birthplace. Pauli who had 13 years Army service at the time, was a former road survey expert with the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Commission, he had been assigned to the military police branch for nine of his 13 years of service. |
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