David Cohen (military)

David Cohen (December 11, 1917 – April 10, 2020) was a soldier in the United States Army and a schoolteacher.

In World War II, Cohen was a liberator of the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Nazi Germany as a member of the 4th Armored Division as a radio operator.

[1][3] Cohen fought in World War II in France, Belgium, and Nazi Germany as a soldier of the 4th Armored Division, for whom he was a radio operator.

[12][13] After his service in World War II, Cohen returned to the United States, moved to Queens, New York, and taught history in junior high school in South Jamaica, Queens, for many years.

[1][3][14] He married his wife, Muriel (née Brown), in the summer of 1942 and raised two daughters, and they had six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.