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US WWII SILVER STAR MEDAL & CITATION GROUPING – 517th PARACHUTE INFANTRY REGIMENT – OPERATION DRAGOON – POW
Grouping named to PFC Louis D. HOLZWORTH who served in the 517th PIR and participated in the airborne operation during Operation DRAGOON in Southern France in August 1944. Fantastic original citation for the SILVER STAR medal with original signature of General ELBRIDGE CHAPMAN. Great combat action on day of jump resulting in his capture for three days! Also comes with his original citation for the BRONZE STAR medal (Jan. 2945), also signed by General Chapman! Silver Star is in the original case, appropriately unnamed but numbered.
https://www.517prct.org/decorations.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49986275/louis_denver-holzworth
Headquarters, 82d Airborne Division, General Orders No. 131 (November 3, 1945)
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Captain (Infantry) Adam A. Komosa (ASN: 0-378898), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, in action on 30 January 1945, near ****, Belgium. Captain Komosa, his exhausted and decimated company pinned down by four machine guns as he led it across open and exposed terrain, dashed forward with his submachine gun and silenced one enemy gun. To perform this action which enabled the company to advance, Captain Komosa voluntarily exposed himself for five minutes to a raking stream of accurate and interlocked enemy automatic weapons fire. Having disposed of one enemy machine gun, he called forward his own and so skillfully directed their emplacement and operation that the three remaining enemy guns were destroyed. Captain Komosa then placed himself at the head of the company and led it forward in a smashing attack against well emplaced enemy infantry that yielded eighty prisoners and caused many enemy casualties. His personal example of determination, devotion to duty and forgetfulness of self safety, inspired the men of his company and was a major consideration in the success of the attack. His gallant actions and dedicated devotion to duty, without regard for his own life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army.
