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John Walton Collier |
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While engaged in
an assault on a strategic ridge strongly defended by a fanatical
enemy, the leading elements of Corporal Collier's company
encountered intense automatic weapons and grenade fire. Corporal
Collier and three comrades volunteered and moved forward to
neutralize an enemy machinegun position which was hampering the
company's advance, but they were twice repulsed. On the third
attempt, Corporal Collier, despite heavy enemy fire and grenade
barrages, moved to an exposed position ahead of his comrades,
assaulted and destroyed the machinegun nest, killing at least 4
enemy soldiers. As he returned down the rocky, fire-swept hill and
joined his squad, an enemy grenade landed in their midst. Shouting
a warning to his comrades, Corporal Collier selflessly and
unhesitatingly, threw himself upon the grenade and smothered its
explosion with his body. This intrepid action saved his comrades
from death or injury.
