First Lieutenant Streit Cunningham died April 12th, 1945, trying to take the Ruhr Pocket in Germany. It was the last, and perhaps most brutal, month of all World War II. Streit was a proud member of Company E, 18th Infantry Regiment, "Fighting First" Infantry Division in the European Theater of Operation, operating under orders numbered 150. Having played tackle on the football team at Lehigh University, it always made sense to my father, Streit's older (and sole surviving brother), that Streit was shot and killed standing up, pitching grenades into a nest of Nazis. He was awarded the Silver Star for Conspicuous Gallantry during Action, after his death. He and his younger brother, Paul Briscoe Cunningham, who died in a military test flight in 1943, are interred together at Arlington National Cemetery.
First Lieutenant Streit Cunningham died April 12th, 1945, trying to take the Ruhr Pocket in Germany. It was the last, and perhaps most brutal, month of all World War II. Streit was a proud member of Company E, 18th Infantry Regiment, "Fighting First" Infantry Division in the European Theater of Operation, operating under orders numbered 150. Having played tackle on the football team at Lehigh University, it always made sense to my father, Streit's older (and sole surviving brother), that Streit was shot and killed standing up, pitching grenades into a nest of Nazis. He was awarded the Silver Star for Conspicuous Gallantry during Action, after his death. He and his younger brother, Paul Briscoe Cunningham, who died in a military test flight in 1943, are interred together at Arlington National Cemetery.
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