Exactly, with Purple Heart to boot.
I actually was listening to his dialogue as when he was introduced I half-expected him to be shown as a fake before the end of the movie. I thought it would be revealed that he never made it overseas, being solely a trainer at home, damaged before being deployed, or the war ended before he could be deployed (see Waldo Pepper).
As far as I could tell he never said he was involved in the actions he described, only that the Jolly Wrenches encountered various difficulties. He never seemed to trade on the presumed experience that people assumed about him and when the extent of his service was revealed he didn't prevaricate or make excuses. I think he deserved a lot more credit than he was given in the script, but OTOH he wasn't the star of the film either.
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