{"id":78570,"date":"2018-03-29T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78570"},"modified":"2018-03-29T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:23:36","slug":"1lt-garlin-murl-conner-to-get-belated-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78570","title":{"rendered":"1LT Garlin Murl Conner to get belated Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78571\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Garlin-Murl-Conner-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Garlin-Murl-Conner-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Garlin-Murl-Conner-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Garlin-Murl-Conner.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Devtun sends us link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/wwii-soldier-to-posthumously-receive-medal-of-honor-1.519316\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> which reports that the widow of First Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner will receive the Medal of Honor later this year for his actions on January 24, 1945 when he absconded from his hospital bed to return to his unit and maul the German Army. 1LT Connor was a member of Kilo Company, 7th Infantry Regiment (Cottonbalers) of the 3rd Infantry Division (Rock of the Marne), the same division where Audie Murphy earned his honors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Connor] single-handedly held off the advance of six German tanks and 600 German infantrymen. Unrolling a spool of wire so he could use a a field telephone, he directed artillery to fall onto his own position, killing 50 enemy soldiers and wounding another 100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called for artillery fire upon himself, determined to destroy and smash the Germans even if it cost him his life,\u201d wrote 1st Sgt. Harold J. Miller in an eyewitness statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Medal of Honor will be an upgrade to his Distinguished Service Cross, <a href=\"https:\/\/valor.militarytimes.com\/hero\/30595\">the citation says<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First Lieutenant Conner ran 400 yards through the impact area of an intense concentration of enemy artillery fire to direct friendly artillery on a force of six Mark VI tanks and tank destroyers, followed by 600 fanatical German infantrymen, which was assaulting in full fury the spearhead position held by his battalion. Along the way, he unreeled a spool of telephone wire, disregarding shells which exploded 25 yards from him and set up an observation post which he manned for more than three hours during the intense fighting. He was individually credited with stopping more than 150 Germans, destroying all the tanks and completely disintegrating the powerful enemy assault force and preventing heavy loss of life in his own outfit. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Connor was no stranger to valor awards, says the Stars &#038; Stripes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conner also earned four Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars, seven Purple Hearts and the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during 28 straight months of combat during World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Connor died at the age of 79 in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends us link to Stars &#038; Stripes which reports that the widow of First Lieutenant &hellip; <a title=\"1LT Garlin Murl Conner to get belated Medal of Honor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78570\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1LT Garlin Murl Conner to get belated Medal of Honor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}