Enlistment Army Service No. (ASN): 6265447
Texas Soldier Given Award Posthumously
Houston, Texas, April 26, 1942
Staff Sergt. Doyle Kimmey, 27, a hero at Pearl Harbor, was posthumously awarded a Distinguished Service Cross Sunday at Ellington Field.
The ceremony was one of the first of its kind held at any Army post in this nation.
Wood H. Kimmey, Angelina County highway worker, received the decoration in behalf of his son. Sergeant Kimmey was with the 19th Transport Squadron, Air Corps.
"While on duty as an aerial engineer, Sergeant Kimmey voluntarily obtained a sub-macjine gun, took cover under a small truck, and opened fire at the low-flying enemy planes which were bombing and strafing the area ," the order said.
"When his supply of ammunition was exhausted, Sergeant Kimmey courageously left his shelter during the heavy attack to retrieve an abandoned submachine gun with a supply of ammunition and after gaining his former position resumed fire until the truck under which he was taking cover was directly hit by a bomb, resulting in his instant death."
While hundreds of cadets from the Ellington Field air crew replacement center presented arms in the dress parade on the broad flying ramp, Col. Walter H. Reid, commander of the field, pinned the decoration on the father. The mother, a sister, Miss Doris Helen Kimmey, 18, and an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimmey, watched from the background.
Date: 1942-04-27; Paper: Dallas Morning News
Section 1, page 1
Texas Soldier Given Award Posthumously
Houston, Texas, April 26, 1942
Staff Sergt. Doyle Kimmey, 27, a hero at Pearl Harbor, was posthumously awarded a Distinguished Service Cross Sunday at Ellington Field.
The ceremony was one of the first of its kind held at any Army post in this nation.
Wood H. Kimmey, Angelina County highway worker, received the decoration in behalf of his son. Sergeant Kimmey was with the 19th Transport Squadron, Air Corps.
"While on duty as an aerial engineer, Sergeant Kimmey voluntarily obtained a sub-macjine gun, took cover under a small truck, and opened fire at the low-flying enemy planes which were bombing and strafing the area ," the order said.
"When his supply of ammunition was exhausted, Sergeant Kimmey courageously left his shelter during the heavy attack to retrieve an abandoned submachine gun with a supply of ammunition and after gaining his former position resumed fire until the truck under which he was taking cover was directly hit by a bomb, resulting in his instant death."
While hundreds of cadets from the Ellington Field air crew replacement center presented arms in the dress parade on the broad flying ramp, Col. Walter H. Reid, commander of the field, pinned the decoration on the father. The mother, a sister, Miss Doris Helen Kimmey, 18, and an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimmey, watched from the background.
Date: 1942-04-27; Paper: Dallas Morning News
Section 1, page 1
Enlistment Army Service No. (ASN): 6265447
Texas Soldier Given Award Posthumously
Houston, Texas, April 26, 1942
Staff Sergt. Doyle Kimmey, 27, a hero at Pearl Harbor, was posthumously awarded a Distinguished Service Cross Sunday at Ellington Field.
The ceremony was one of the first of its kind held at any Army post in this nation.
Wood H. Kimmey, Angelina County highway worker, received the decoration in behalf of his son. Sergeant Kimmey was with the 19th Transport Squadron, Air Corps.
"While on duty as an aerial engineer, Sergeant Kimmey voluntarily obtained a sub-macjine gun, took cover under a small truck, and opened fire at the low-flying enemy planes which were bombing and strafing the area ," the order said.
"When his supply of ammunition was exhausted, Sergeant Kimmey courageously left his shelter during the heavy attack to retrieve an abandoned submachine gun with a supply of ammunition and after gaining his former position resumed fire until the truck under which he was taking cover was directly hit by a bomb, resulting in his instant death."
While hundreds of cadets from the Ellington Field air crew replacement center presented arms in the dress parade on the broad flying ramp, Col. Walter H. Reid, commander of the field, pinned the decoration on the father. The mother, a sister, Miss Doris Helen Kimmey, 18, and an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimmey, watched from the background.
Date: 1942-04-27; Paper: Dallas Morning News
Section 1, page 1
Texas Soldier Given Award Posthumously
Houston, Texas, April 26, 1942
Staff Sergt. Doyle Kimmey, 27, a hero at Pearl Harbor, was posthumously awarded a Distinguished Service Cross Sunday at Ellington Field.
The ceremony was one of the first of its kind held at any Army post in this nation.
Wood H. Kimmey, Angelina County highway worker, received the decoration in behalf of his son. Sergeant Kimmey was with the 19th Transport Squadron, Air Corps.
"While on duty as an aerial engineer, Sergeant Kimmey voluntarily obtained a sub-macjine gun, took cover under a small truck, and opened fire at the low-flying enemy planes which were bombing and strafing the area ," the order said.
"When his supply of ammunition was exhausted, Sergeant Kimmey courageously left his shelter during the heavy attack to retrieve an abandoned submachine gun with a supply of ammunition and after gaining his former position resumed fire until the truck under which he was taking cover was directly hit by a bomb, resulting in his instant death."
While hundreds of cadets from the Ellington Field air crew replacement center presented arms in the dress parade on the broad flying ramp, Col. Walter H. Reid, commander of the field, pinned the decoration on the father. The mother, a sister, Miss Doris Helen Kimmey, 18, and an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimmey, watched from the background.
Date: 1942-04-27; Paper: Dallas Morning News
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