SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — An “Old Reliable” who fought for years in World War II will graduate from high school Saturday, two months after turning 100 years old.

George Hulka Jr., attended a one-room schoolhouse as a kid until eighth grade and then worked on his family’s dairy farm in the town of Saratoga until the military plucked him for duty in 1941. A combat infantryman, Hulka rifled his way across north Africa and Europe for nearly three years and fought Nazis in eight combat campaigns. He survived the decisive D-Day invasion at Normandy on June 6, 1944, and subsequent battles in France and Germany, including the Battle of the Bulge.