Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Sergeant

Unit:

Company A, 1st Battalion, 399th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division "Century", U.S. Army

Awarded on:

October 6th, 1945

Sgt. John A. Hambric, 34581156, Infantry, 399th Infantry Regiment, for extraordinary heroism in action on April 13, 1945 in the vicinity of Heilbronn, Germany. After the platoon in which Sergeant Hambric was a squad leader had gained a wooded area, fire from two enemy machine guns, which were unknowingly bypassed, immobilized the company's two remaining platoons. Crawling to a point seventyfive yards to the rear of the nearest hostile emplacement, Sergeant Hambric fired two rounds, killing both gunners. Moving out again, he then advanced to a position behind a second gun. His first shot killed one of the gun crew members, but the other German, firing a machine pistol, initiated a suicidal charge. Standing his ground, Sergeant Hambric waited until the foe was forty yards away, then killed the man with two rounds. His audacious and unselfish devotion to duty accounted for two enemy machine guns destroyed, four German dead, and enabled his company to take its objective. Entered military service from Marietta, Mississippi.

Headquarters, Seventh U.S. Army, General Orders No. 585 (6 October 1945).