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Location: DELAWARE VETERANS CEMETERY

City: BEAR

State: Delaware

Zip Code: 19701

Type of Memorial: Medal of Honor Grave Stones Type II

Access: Cemetery

Wars Commemorated: WORLD WAR II

Photograph By: DON MORFE


THROUGH SHEER GRIT AND DETERMINATION SGT. CONNOR LED HIS PLATOON IN CLEARING AN ENEMY VASTLY SUPERIOR IN NUMBERS AND FIREPOWER FROM STRONGLY ENTRENCHED POSITIONS ON CAPE CAVALAIRE, REMOVING A GRAVE ENEMY THREAT TO HIS DIVISION DURING THE AMPHIBIOUS LANDING IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, AND THEREBY INSURED A SAFE AND UNINTERRUPTED LANDINGS FOR THE HUGH VOLUME OF MEN AND MATERIAL WHICH FOLLOWED. ALTHOUGH GRAVELY WOUNDED SGT. CONNOR IN A PRONE POSITION GAVE ORDERS AND DIRECTED HIS MEN IN ASSAULTING THE ENEMY. INFUSED WITH SGT. CONNOR’S DOGGED DETERMINATION, THE PLATOON, THOUGH REDUCED TO LESS THAN ONE-THIRD OF ITS ORIGINAL 36 MEN, OUTFLANKED AND RUSHED THE ENEMY WITH SUCH FURIOUSNESS THAT THEY KILLED 7, CAPTURED 40, SIZED 3 MACHINEGUNS AND CONSIDERABLE OTHER MATERIAL, AND TOOK ALL THEIR ASSIGNED, SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THEIR MISSIONS. BY HIS REPEATED EXAMPLES OF TENACIOUSNESS AND INDOMITABLE SPIRIT SGT. CONNOR TRANSMITTED HIS HEROISM TO HIS MEN UNTIL THEY BECAME A FIGHTING TEAM WHICH COULD NOT BE STOPPED. FOR HIS LEADERHSIP AND HEROISM SGT. CONNOR WAS AWARDED THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR.


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