Hometown Hero: 97-year-old Bob Pabst of Terre Haute

Hometown Heroes

Posted: Aug 9, 2019 / 02:56 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 9, 2019 / 02:56 PM EDT

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) He is well known from his many years of teaching at Indiana State University.

But during World War II, Bob Pabst led a machine gun unit in a division called Hell on Wheels.

It was a dangerous time that he remembers all too well.