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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: October 16, 2003
Caption: PFC. Herman C. Wallace-World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient-grave marker
Additional Description: He is buried in Block 41, Lot 2. The grave GPS is N33.5654 W101.8101. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: *WALLACE, HERMAN C.(Killed in Action) • Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 301st Engineer Combat Battalion, 76th Infantry Division • Place and date: Near Prumzurley, Germany, 27 February 1945 • Entered service at: Lubbock, Tex. • G.O. No.: 92, 25 October 1945 Citation: He displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity. While helping clear enemy mines from a road, he stepped on a well-concealed S-type antipersonnel mine. Hearing the characteristic noise indicating that the mine had been activated and, if he stepped aside, would be thrown upward to explode above ground and spray the area with fragments, surely killing 2 comrades directly behind him and endangering other members of his squad, he deliberately placed his other foot on the mine even though his best chance for survival was to fall prone. Pvt. Wallace was killed when the charge detonated, but his supreme heroism at the cost of his life confined the blast to the ground and his own body and saved his fellow soldiers from death or injury.
Submitted: August 3, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p392677
File Size: 0.047 Megabytes

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