In February 1979 came a call from Chief Warrant Officer Carl Hansen of the Awards Office in the Pentagon. “Colonel Urban, I have some great news for you! On digging through our great volume of files, we have located a bona fide application for the Congressional Medal of Honor sent to us by Sergeant Earl Evans!”
Sergeant Evans spent the last months of the war in a German POW captured shortly after Matt Urban final evacuation from the front… and was the one pushing the U.S. administration to recognize the valor in action of his comrade when he came back safely home. It will take him almost 35 years to accomplish this administration crusade!
Why? Once you will have read the story of Matt Urban, you will understand why one comrade did this for another comrade!
Would you have done the same?
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World War 2,
Nazi,
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Nazi, Führer Adolf Hitler,
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Operation TORCH,
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France, Normandy, Cherbourg,
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Third Reich Minister Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels,
WWII Arthur Harris, Air Force Commanding-in-Chief,
WWII, RAF Bomber Command,
WWII, Ninth Air Force,
WWII Eighth Air Force,
USAAF,
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WWII and WWI Battlefield Medicine,
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Operation Cobra,
France, Brittany American Cemetery,
Medal of Honor, Matt Urban,
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WWII 3rd US Army camp Néhou, Normandy,
WWII 39th Infantry Regiment,
WWII 47th Infantry Regiment,
Spain Agent Garbo,
USA, The White House,
Medal of Honor recipient,
Operation Husky,
WWII 60th Infantry Regiment,
National Archives
The American-led invasion of Normandy on D-Day was a complicated affair. In this post, we explore the different branches of the American military and how they worked together to defeat Axis forces on that infamous day in history.
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World War 2,
Nazi,
France, Normandy, Utah Beach,
WWII 101st Airborne Division,
Third Reich,
France, Normandy, D-Day,
Operation Neptune,
Third Reich, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt,
Third Reich, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
Nazi, Führer Adolf Hitler,
France, Normandy, Colleville-sur-Mer,
France, Normandy, Vierville-sur-Mer,
France, Normandy, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer,
WWII Atlantic Wall,
WWII 115th Infantry Regiment,
WWII 29th Infantry Division,
WWII 116th Infantry Regiment,
World War Two,
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WWII 22nd Infantry Regiment,
France, Normandy, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont,
WWII 8th Infantry Regiment,
WWII 12th Infantry Regiment,
WWII 1st Infantry Division,
WWII 16th Infantry Regiment,
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WWII, USA, Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt,
WWII, USA, General Norman Daniel Cota,
Movie Saving Private Ryan,
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France, Normandy Azeville Battery,
Movie The Longest Day,
France, Normandy, Crisbecq Battery,
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WWII Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Junior,
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Third Reich, Field Marshal Johannes Rommel,
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WWII Eighth Air Force,
USAAF,
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WWII Combat Medic,
WWII, USA, General Charles Hunter Gerhardt,
WWII 5th Rangers Battalion,
France, Cotentin Peninsula,
WWII, Tank Destroyers