There is one Medal awarded for actions on this day - and the 1st Sergeant lived to recieve it.World War II - wherein a german officer learned, the hard way, that you don't hold a weapon on someone who is within arms reach, at least not from the front. They have the initiative, as 1SG Funk amply demonstrates.FUNK, LEONARD A., JR. Rank and organization: First Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 508th Parachute Infantry, 82d Airborne Division. Place and date: Holzheim, Belgium, 29 January 1945. Entered service at: Wilkinsburg, Pa. Birth: Braddock Township, Pa. G.O. No.: 75, 5 September 1945. Citation: He...
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