Pvt. John R. Towle of Cleveland, Ohio, Co. C, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment for action near Oosterhout, Holland, Sept. 21, 1944. Armed with a rocket launcher he single handedly, and without orders moved into an exposed position and broke up a German counterattack of 100 infantrymen supported by two tanks and a half-track before he was mortally wounded by a mortar shell during the Nijmegen action.
Source: McMillan Memorial Library