Sergeant George D. McClees, 21 Sixth Street, Dravosburg, has been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic action on the Fifth Army front in Italy.
With the road from Minturno to Santa Maria Infante under constant enemy artillery and small arms fire, Sergeant McClees, a liaison radio operator with a field artillery battalion, set up and continued to operate his radio from a shell hole under direct enemy mortar and machine-gun fire.
This communication was vital to the success of the attack on Santa Maria Infante.
George was the son of Charles and Nellie McClees.
The Daily News, McKeesport August 22, 1944
With the road from Minturno to Santa Maria Infante under constant enemy artillery and small arms fire, Sergeant McClees, a liaison radio operator with a field artillery battalion, set up and continued to operate his radio from a shell hole under direct enemy mortar and machine-gun fire.
This communication was vital to the success of the attack on Santa Maria Infante.
George was the son of Charles and Nellie McClees.
The Daily News, McKeesport August 22, 1944
Sergeant George D. McClees, 21 Sixth Street, Dravosburg, has been awarded the Bronze Star for heroic action on the Fifth Army front in Italy.
With the road from Minturno to Santa Maria Infante under constant enemy artillery and small arms fire, Sergeant McClees, a liaison radio operator with a field artillery battalion, set up and continued to operate his radio from a shell hole under direct enemy mortar and machine-gun fire.
This communication was vital to the success of the attack on Santa Maria Infante.
George was the son of Charles and Nellie McClees.
The Daily News, McKeesport August 22, 1944
With the road from Minturno to Santa Maria Infante under constant enemy artillery and small arms fire, Sergeant McClees, a liaison radio operator with a field artillery battalion, set up and continued to operate his radio from a shell hole under direct enemy mortar and machine-gun fire.
This communication was vital to the success of the attack on Santa Maria Infante.
George was the son of Charles and Nellie McClees.
The Daily News, McKeesport August 22, 1944
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