General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

WIR DEPARTMENT
WASHING~N 25, D. 0.. 27 June 1946
Section
bInD.\L Off HONOR-Award ............................................... I
UISTINGUISHED-SERVICE MEDAL (OAK LEAF CLCSTEI1)-Award ......... I1
SILYEIi STAK-POS~~U~OUS award8 ......................................... 111
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BATTLE HONORS--Citations of unite ...................................... IX
!..MEDAL OF HONOR.-By direction of the President, under the prurisions
of the act of Congress approved 9 July llV18 (WD Bul. 43. 1918). a MvdU of
Hmor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and
beyond the call of duty was awarded by the War Department in the name of
Congress to the followin$-named enlisted man:
Technical Sergeant Beauford T. Anderson (Army serial No. 36272960) (then
Staff Sergmut). Company A, 381st Infantry Regiment, Army of the United
States, on 13 Apvil 1945, st Okioawa. displnyrd eonspicuons gallantry and intwpidity
above and besoild the call of duty. When a powedully conductell predawn
Japanese counterattack struck his unit's flank, he ordered his men to
tala cover in an old tomb and then, armed only with a carbine, fared the onslalrght
alone. After empting oce magazine at ~oint-b1:lnk range into the
screumiug attackers, hc seized an enemy mortar dud and threw it back among
the charging Japs. killing Bevernl as it burst. Sccluing a box of mortar shells.
he catr8cted the safety pins, banged the bases upon a rock to arm them, and
proceeded nlternatcly to hurl shells and fire his ~ieee among the fanaticnl foe,
finally forcing them to withdraw. Despite the protests of his comrades and
bi~rding proiusely from a severe shrapnel wound, he made his nay to his cornllally
commauder to report the action. Sergeant Anderson's intrepid eondllct in
the face of overwhelrnii~g odds nccoru~ted for 25 enemy killed and several machine
guns and knee mortars destroyed, thus single-hnntlcdly removinl: a serious
thre;~t to the eomganp'e Rank.
II..DISTINGUISHED-SERVICE MEDAL (OAK-LEAF CLUSTER).-By direction
of the President, in addition to the Distinguished-Scrviee Mednl awarded
by the War Department to Major General Dunid Noce, as published in WD
General Orders 4, 1943, a second t>rollzr 02rk-Leaf Cluster for exceptionally
meritorious arid distinguished services in the perforrunnee of duties of great
responsibility during the pcrlod lntlicated was awarded to him by the War
Drluirtmeot under the plwvisiuns of (he net of Congress a~l;li.ured 9 July 1918
I WD Uul. 43, 19183. The citation is as follows:
Nzjor General Dn?iizl Noce, 05226, United States Army. 10 May 1!M5 to 10
,I we 1916.
IIILSILVZR STAR.--1. Uy dil.eclion of the President, under the provisions
or the act of Congress approved Y July 1918 (WD Bul. 43, 1918), a Silver Star
for gallantry in action during the periad indicated was awarded posthumously
by the War Department to the following-named ofirer and individual:
Alnris Sommar-ipo, Amcriean civilian in the enlplny of the Office of Strategic
Services, eo~tributed gallantly to the success of American arms an 28 March
1946 during an attack an Gabelurotl, Germany. Be fearlessly took an nuescorted
light tank down the village's main street, calling over a lnod-speaker systrm
far the enemy 1.0 wrreuder. In 20 minutes, Mr. ~Sonmaripa persuaded 1,000
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