Medal of Honor Recipient: Sergeant Wilbur E. Colyer
Rank and organization: Sergeant , U.S. Verdun , France 9 October 1918 . Entered service at: South Ozone, Long Island , N.Y. Brooklyn , N.Y. G.O. No.: 20, W.D., 1919.
Citation: Volunteering with 2 other soldiers to locate machinegun nests, Sgt. Colyer advanced on the hostile positions to a point where he was half surrounded by the nests, which were in ambush. He killed the gunner of one gun with a captured German grenade and then turned this gun on the other nests silencing all of them before he returned to his platoon. He was later killed in action.
Citation: Volunteering with 2 other soldiers to locate machinegun nests, Sgt. Colyer advanced on the hostile positions to a point where he was half surrounded by the nests, which were in ambush. He killed the gunner of one gun with a captured German grenade and then turned this gun on the other nests silencing all of them before he returned to his platoon. He was later killed in action.
posted by Poison Pero | 9/08/2011
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