SGT. JAMES P. CONNOR MEMORIAL CIRCLE

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 THERE BY INSURED A SAFE AND UNINTERRUPTED LANDING FOR THE HUGH VOLUME OF MEN AND MATERIAL WHICH FOLLOWED. ALTHOUGH GRAVELY WOUNDED SGT. CONNOR FROM 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, SEIZED 3 MACHINEGUNS AND CONSIDERABLE OTHER MATERIAL, AND TOOK ALL THEIR ASSIGNED OBJECTIVES, SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THEIR MISSION. 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.