He’s a real-life GI Joe.
Francis Currey was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1945 for being a one-man wrecking crew against the Nazis in World War II — and this Veterans Day, he’ll be getting the stamp of approval from the US Postal Service.
On Monday, two new 46-cent Medal of Honor stamps will be introduced at a ceremony in Washington, DC, in tribute to the 464 servicemen given the medal for their WWII heroics. More than 60 percent were cited posthumously.
The then-6-foot-3, 130-pound Currey fought ferociously to halt a German tank advance and protect a bridge under siege on Dec. 21, 1944, in the Belgian town of Malmedy during the Battle of the Bulge.
Storming through enemy lines, he captured a bazooka, used it to knock out a tank with a single shot, advanced through withering enemy fire, dispatched three German soldiers with his rifle and inched towards a house used by Nazi troops.
He spotted five trapped Americans who had been pinned down for hours, two badly wounded.
Currey gathered up an armful of antitank grenades and launched them under heavy fire.
“He then climbed onto a [vehicle] within full view of the Germans and fired a machine gun at the house. Once again changing his position, he manned another machine gun whose crew had been killed; under his covering fire, the five soldiers were able to retire to safety,” the record states.
Currey speaks almost grudgingly about the war, downplaying his valor.
“As far as I was concerned, that was just one day in nine months of battle,” Currey, 88, told The Post.
A resident of Selkirk, near Albany, Currey was a 19-year-old with the 30th Infantry Division on that dramatic day nearly 70 years ago.
The stamps will be issued in packets of 20 that show portraits of Currey and 11 other medal recipients.
Currey is the last of 28 WWII vets from New York state to be granted our nation’s highest military honor.
“I could care less, really, but they [the Postal Service] wanted it and I’ll go along with it,” he said.