The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
28 GI I'sGiven Honor MedoI
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lating the heroic battle episodes for which each won the coveted award.
 Two of the award winners did not stand with the others = they could not walk and were in wheel chairs. Most of the rest had had to wait until today for the most memorable day of their lives be- cause of wounds suffered in battle. Many are crippled for life.
 All of today's heroes were nem- bers of the Army. Their 28 awards bring to 196 the number of Medals of Honor awarded to army per- sonnel since World War II began.
 A part of the U. s. Army band played softly in the White House lobby as the heroes and their fam flies were ushered into the East room. Mrs. Truman greeted many of them personally as they entered. Then, at 10:05 a. rn., EWT, the soft strains of "Hail To The Chief" heralded the entrance of the Pres- ident and the simply ceremony be- gan.
 MT. Truman smiled at the crowd, then looked respectfully at the 28 khaki-clad men to whom he was to award the medal which he, him. self, has said would be a better pos- session than the presidency of the United States.
 Roll Call
 The roll was called. First came T/Sgt Bernard P. Bell, B, New York, who last Dec. IS singlehand- edly captured school building at Mittelwihr, France. He led eight men in death fight which wiped out a heavily warmed force of 150 Germans.
 The others followed in alphabet ical order. Those still bothered by wounds moved 8 bit more slowly than tine others.
 The highest-ranking member of the contingent of heroes was It. Col. George L. Mabry, Jr., 28, Hagod, s. c, Last Nov. A he led his battalion through a bullet-sprayed minefleld in Germany. Single . handedly Mabry bounced on a group of en- trenched Germans and captured them at bayonet point.
 Conn. Man
 The youngest officer in the group was Capt. Michael J. Daly, South- port, Conn, who will be 21 next Twice wounded, he has won the Silver Star three times. Last April 18, he killed IS Germans, si- fencing three enemy machine guns and wiping out an entire enemy patrol in sniper-infested Nueren- berg. Daly commanded Company A, 18th Regiment of the Third 1n-. fantry division. He walked right into one machine gun, shooting its three -man crew with his carbine.
 Second It. Edward c. Dahlgren, 31, Caribou, Me-, was a technical sergeant last Feb. il when the Texas Division met stubborn resistance near Oberhoffen, France. Dahlgren led his unit in the rescue of an enemy-surrounded platoon of Tanks and single-handedly stormed four buildings to kill or capture the Ger man garrisons. He killed eight Ger mans, captured 39 others and wounded an undetermined number.
 A Canadian who fought with Co. I, Fist Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division, won the Medal of Honor for going out alone volun- tarily to destroy four enemy ma chine guns near Woefing, France. last New Years day. He was Sgt. Charles A. Mace Gillivary of g Spring street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, formerly of Quincy, Mass.
 S/Sgt. Robert E. Laws. 24. of A. toona, Pa, singlehandedly engaged a pillbox full of Japanese in a machine gun duel, a hand grenade melee and hand-to-hand struggle to death last Jan. 12.
 Another Luzo hero, S/Sgt. Ray mond H. Cooley, 29, of South Pitts- burgh, Tenn, deliberately held an armed hand grenade to avoid wounding his fellow soldiers. He lost his right hand.
 A Mexican-born Texas cotton farmer, S/Sgt. Marcario Garcia. 25. Sugarland, Texas, singlehandedly flanked an enemy position near Grosshau, Germany, to destroy 2 machine gun position and permit his company to advance.
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