Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Unit:

Company C, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division "The Rock of the Marne", U.S. Army (Company C, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division "Rock Of The Marne", U.S. Army)

Awarded on:

August 8th, 1944

For action performed on 1 February 1944, in the Province of Rome, Lazio region, Italy.

Citation:
"When his company was attacked by strong German forces in Italy on Feb. 1, 1944, he, a bazooka gunner, voluntarily organized eight men into a firing line. Then, taking a rifle from a casualty, he knocked out an enemy gun crew as it was moving into position, killed two Germans and drove the third one away. He next fired on a machine gun 75 yards away and silenced it.
Throughout the two and a half hour battle, he killed or wounded at least six more Germans and exposed himself steadily to direct automatic weapons fire and tank shells, which once struck ten yards from him, to control the fire of his men. His action secured an exposed flank of an advancing company during a critical period."