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He was also a member of the Cuyahoga Falls Masonic Lodge 735, The American Legion Post 281, The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1062, and the 103rd Infantry Division of World War II Association. Giles was married for 50 years to his wife, Alice Corkie, and the couple had two daughters, Ginger Salter and Tracey Lynn. He passed away on January 18, 2003, at his home in Cuyahoga Falls.","Source:","\"Herman C. \"Ozzie\" Giles.\" Legacy.com. Accessed June 25, 2018. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ohio/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory\u0026pid=732464.","Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections \u0026 Archives in July 2022.","This collection pertains to Herman C. Giles (Combat Infantry Rifleman with the 103rd Infantry Division), who served in the European Theater. He served as a corpsman with a medical detachment to the 66th Infantry Division according to his typed \"Background\" statement. 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