Date of birth:

(New York City - USA)

Service number:

ASN: 0-1547962

Nationality:

American

First Lieutenant Perry Heidelberger Jr. army serial number 32012380, from New York City enlisted in the US Army on the 13th of March, 1941. He became a combat medic in the 94th Infantry Division, 376th Medical Detachment and fought under Patton at the Siegfried Line. He was awarded the Silver Star Medal for valor for actions that were recorded in the fabulous book PATTON'S PAWNS the 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line by Tony Lee Tissier.

The actions which earned him his Silver Star Medal found in Patton's Pawns page 110 reads in part:

[During the Second Battle of Sinz] There were so many injured soldiers coming back that battalion medical officer, Lt. Perry Heidelberger, took a jeep forward to Sinz and went forward on foot to within three hundred yards of the German tanks southeast of the woods waving his red cross-marked helmet to attract attention. A German tank commander came forward, who allowed Heidelberger...

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

1st Lieutenant (Lieutenant)

Unit:

Medical Detachment, 2nd Battalion, 376th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division "Neuf-Cats", U.S. Army

Awarded on:

April 19th, 1945

For action performed on 10 February 1945, near Sinz/Rhine Province, Germany.
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to First Lieutenant (Medical Administrative Corps) Perry Heidelberger, Jr. (ASN: 0-1547962), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the Medical Detachment, 94th Infantry Division, in action against the enemy in Germany on 28 February 1945. When members of an assault team were wounded by raking mortar fire from a heavily fortified pillbox, Lieutenant Heidelberger attached a red cross arm band to a white flag, and disregarding the intense fire, walked boldly to the stricken men, dressing their wounds and evacuating them. Noticing some of the enemy standing outside the fortress, he motioned to them and approached their position. Convincing them of the futility of continued resistance he persuaded the entire German Garrison of two officers and 59 enlisted men to lay down their arms. Lieutenant Heidelberger's valiant courage and untiring devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service.

Headquarters, 94th Infantry Division, General Orders No. 98 (April 19, 1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

1st Lieutenant

Unit:

Medical Detachment, 2nd Battalion, 376th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division "Neuf-Cats", U.S. Army

Awarded on:

April 19th, 1945

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

with 2 GS - Gold Stars

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

• - Le Tissier, T., Patton’s Pawns – The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 2007
  - Byrnes, L.G., History of the 94th Infantry Division in World War II, The Battery Press, Nashville, USA, 1982
  - Perry Heidelberger - Recipient -