Pfc. Stahlman was born January 16, 1919, in New Kensington, Pa. He attended the schools in New Bethlehem. Later, he obtained employment with the Bennett Construction Company, Indiana, Pa. and entered the service on July, 1942. After eight weeks training at Fort Eustace, Va., he was sent to North Africa. After engaging in operations there, he engaged in the campaigns in Italy and other focal points. In 1943 he entered England from where he participated in the Normandy Invasion, seeing fierce fighting in France and Germany as, by then, an old member of The Fighting First Division. On October 8, 1944, after two days of heavy fighting, Bob was picked up by Chaplin Rodgers on Crucifix Hill in Aachen, Germany, where he had fallen while engaged in laying a breast work. He is now buried in New Bethlehem Cemetery, New Bethlehem, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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