The article I used about this man's death didn't have much about his military career or the action that got him his Medal of Honor, so I had to go elsewhere.
From Wikipedia.
(August 4, 1921-April 6, 2021)
United States Army technical sergeant and recipient on the military's highest decoration of valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in France during World War II.
At the time of his death, he was the only surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the European Theater of the war.
Born in South Mountain, Tennessee, and graduated from Chattanooga High School. Received basic training at Fort McClellan in Alabama and then sent to Camp Butner in North Carolina and Camp Edwards in Massachusetts, where he was assigned to M Company, 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.
In April 1943, he unit was shipped overseas to Oran, Algeria, to participate in the North Africa Campaign.
--GreGen
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