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Medal of Honor: Airborne is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA Los Angeles and released worldwide on mobile phones in August 2007, [1] on Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in September 2007, and on PlayStation 3 in November 2007. [2] It is the 11th installment of the Medal of Honor series, and uses a modified version of Unreal ...
He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor six months later, on March 15, 1945, making him the first member of the 82nd Airborne Division to be awarded the medal during World War II. [3] Towle, aged 19 at his death, was buried at Calvary Cemetery in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
At the time of his death he was the last living Medal of Honor recipient from the 82nd Airborne Division from World War II. [8] A cenotaph was erected at the Camp Blanding Memorial Park after his death in recognition his contributions to the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment which was stood up and trained at Camp Blanding. In 1995, a section of ...
During World War II the division and its members were awarded the following awards: [59] Distinguished Unit Citations: 4; Medal of Honor: 4 Staff Sergeant Isadore S. Jachman ; Private George J. Peters (KIA) Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker (KIA) Technical Sergeant Clinton Hedrick (KIA) Distinguished Service Cross: 4; Distinguished Service ...
Robert G. Cole was born at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, Texas, to Colonel Clarence F. Cole, an Army doctor, and Clara H. Cole on March 19, 1915.He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio in 1933 and joined the United States Army on July 1, 1934.
The earliest action for which a U.S. serviceman earned a World War II Medal of Honor was the attack on Pearl Harbor, for which 17 U.S. servicemen were awarded a Medal, although they did so "while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force" rather than "enemy" since the United States was neutral during the ...
EA Sends Players to International Hotspots with Medal of Honor Warfighter Zero Dark ThirtyMap Pack REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Danger Close™ Games, a studio of Electronic Arts (NAS ...
The Market Garden salient was held in a defensive operation for several weeks until the 82nd was relieved by Canadian troops, and sent into reserve in France. During the operation, 19-year-old Private John R. Towle of the 504th PIR was posthumously awarded the 82nd Airborne Division's second Medal of Honor of World War II.