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Distinguished Unit Citation Awarded Sasser's Outfit
Pfc. Couey E. Sasser of Roanoke Street Roanoke is in the 80th Blue Ridge Infantry Division 313th Field Artillery Battalion which received the War Department Distinguished Unit Citation in the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 313th crossed the Moselle River September 12 1944 and defended against repeated enemy attacks earning praise for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty.
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Ember
Blue Ridge’ Infantry
313 Field Artillery
War Department
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington, D. C
George C. Marshall
313Th Field Artillery
Frederick W. Ellery
Riverside
Cal
Moselle
France
Bezaumont
Posipees
313Th Field Artillery Battalion
United States
317Th Infantry
Argentan
Aise Gap
Spairegrasin
Seventh Army
Blue Ridge
George S. Patton
Third Army
Metz
Lorraine
Maginot
Saar
St. Avold
von Ronstedt
Luxembourg
Belgium
Bulge
Luxembourg City
Our
Sauer
Siegfried Line
Bitburg
St. Wendel
Kaiserslautern
Weisbaden
Kassel
Erfurt
Weimar
Jena
Gera
Danube
Inn River
Braunau
Hitler