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William Sawelson
Citation for Congressional Medal of Honor
by Seymour "Sy" Brody
WORLD WAR I
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Sergeant, United States Army, Company M,
312th Infantry, 78th Division
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At Grand-Pre, France, 26 October, 1918
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| Entered service at:
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Harrison, New Jersey
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| Birth:
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Newark, New Jersey
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CITATION
Hearing a wounded man in a shell hole some distance away calling for water, Sergeant
Sawelson, upon his own initiative, left his shelter and crawled through heavy machine
gun fire to where the man lay, giving what water he had in his canteen. He then went
back to his own shell hole, obtained more water, and was returning to the wounded
man when he was killed by a machine gun bullet.
Source: Jewish
Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
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