“We were deep in the brush and we couldn’t see the Germans and they couldn’t see us. But we could hear their machine guns shooting something awful.”
He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others.
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