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CARROLL B. CALVERT, 35449002, Staff Sergeant, 508th Parachute Infantry. For
gallantry in action on 1 October 1944, near Grosbeek, Holland.
Staff Sergeant Calvert, Squad Leader, Company "D" was in
command of a group of ten men holding a forward position on the MLR. The
position was subjected to an intensive artillery barrage during the early
morning hours. Communications with the rear was disrupted. Under cover
of the barrage, a company of enemy infantry advanced to the attack.
Staff Sergeant Calvert gave the order to hold at all costs. His gallant
determination inspired his men with such fierceness that the enemy company
was annihilated, leaving behind sixty-five dead and wounded and eight
prisoners. Throughout the entire period of the attack he moved from one
position to the other, exhorting his men to stand fast. His courage
and dogged determination was the decisive factor in the repulse of the
attack.
Entered military service from Beckley, West Virginia.
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