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20 Tar Heels Awarded Bronze Star MedalsnC.Iti-dui-ariItn-sf1-hGastonian, Pfc. Clyde T. Mills, is Among the Number of First Division Men Honored for Heroic WorkOn “D Day.* WASHINGTON Dec 7.-4*—Twenty North Carolinians wereamong the infantrymen of a single battalion of the First Infantry Division to be awarded the Bronze Star Medal, one posthumously for heroic achievement on D-Day m the invasion of Normandy the War Department announced today.Their group made an early morn -Ing landing on a Normandy coast beach, near the town of Coiieviiie-Sur-Mer and encountered some of the toughest fighting that D-Day produced. They fmight all day, pushing the enemy back.North Carolinians receiving the medal were;ofr-ifwielelya*Albert W. Grady, second lieuten i- 1 ant, infantry, R. F. D. 1. Hope Mill 11 Wade Davis. Jr., technical ser-Jie geant, infantry R F D 2. WUson , Edward J. Brinkley staff sergeant, infantry, R F D 2. Henderson James H McCumbee, sergeantinfantry. R F D. I. Tabor City,Ruben L Green, corporal, infantry. R F, D. 2, Reidsvilie. re Samuel T. Aikimon, Jr.* privatery j first class, infantry. R F D, 4.1 — High Point - v. 1Henry W Bennett private first class, infantry, Box 152. Lexington Laud. Bowers, private first class infantry, Dockery.David E Bumgardner, privatefirst class, infantry, Wilkesboro Fred D Craver. private first class R F D 2, Clemmons.William L Freeman, private first class, infantry, 12 Mad well avenue. Balfour.Mack Ma«*k C Miller private first class, infantry, Mabel Clyde T Mills, private first class infantry, 706 East Airline street, Gastonia 1mm C. Muliinax. private first class, infantry. Kings Mountain.Hal D Steed* private first class, infantry, North Elm street, She-boro.Grady R Fish, private, infantryR. P, D, 3, LineointonChelcer H Laws, private, infantry, 136 Prospect street, Lenoir, Henry J, Meyer, private, infantryit.mmmd-pted►rea-iidnsn-veeyvmtintSituead
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Gastonia Daily Gazette
Gastonia, North Carolina, US
Thu, Dec 07, 1944
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