General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

WAR DEPARTAiENT
No. 6 W~sar~cm~ 26, D. C., 11 January 1946
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Seetion
UiYITED STATES ARMY TRbSSI'ORT-Dcsi~nntion of Ainuriwin as hospital
ship remored ............................................................ I
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BATTLE HOKORS-Citations of units . I11
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TYPIIUS COUhlSSSIO~ hl~:I~AJ,--Ar~nc~1~....~~ IV
ILUNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT.--Section I, WD CTencral Orders
65, 1913; drsiynating the United States Army transport Alpongt~in ns a hoslritnl
ship. is rcscii~led.
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IINIEDAI, OF HONOR,By dircetian of the President, under the nrovisinns
of the act of Congrrss npgroreC Q July 1918 (WU Bul. 4.1, lRlS), a Nedni of monos
for Collspiellous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of lifc ahore and bsoml
the call of dury was awarded by the Far Uepartrr~erlt in the name of Connrcss
to the fulluiving-named enlisted man:
Technical Sergeant Pernnn XcCnrity (A~mg serial No. 34493308) (then staff
Sergeant), a ?quad leader with Company I., 3936 Infantry Kcgiment, Army of
the Unitcd Slnres, was paiufnily noundcd in an artillery barmge that preceded
the powerful counteroffensive launrbed by the Germruns near Krinkelt, Belgium,
on the morning of 16 December 1544. Ue made his ~ n to y xn aid statirln,
receired treatment. and then refused to be evacuated, choosing to retnrn to his
hard-~ressed men instead. The fury of the enemy's last great Western Front
offensive swirled about the position hcld by Sergeant dlcGn?-itb"8 small force,
hut 80 tennciuneiy did these men fight on orders to slnnd firm nL all costs that
they could not be dislodgcd despite murderous enemy sire and the breakdown
of their eommunicntions. During the day the heroic squad lanrlrr rescued one
of his men whu had been wounded in a forward position, and tllrouyhout the
night he crhorted his comrades to repulse the enemy's attempts at infilmation.
When morning came and the Germans attacked with tanks and inlnutry, he
brav~il heavy fire to run to an adrnntageous position whcre he im~nobilizecl the
enemx's lead tank ailh a ronnd from a rocket launcher. Aiie from his squad
drove the atlacking infnntrsmcn back. and thrcc sungosting tanks wiLhdrcm.
He lrres~ied. unlier iwary fir?, anorher wounded Ameri