Open this photo in gallery: During the Second World War, Alan Earp was assigned to a pioneer platoon, which did engineering and construction work on the front lines with the infantry in Europe. Lt. Earp joined the army when he was 17 – he lied about his age and told a recruiter he was 18 – and survived being shot in the head in the final days of the war.Courtesy of family Lieutenant Alan Earp was shot in the head at point-blank range by a German soldier in the dying days of the Second World War. It was April 14,...