[Ben Hecks]

Thanks for you excellent contribution to FR. I would like to mention Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose as a resource for some amazing stories of valor. One of the stories that sticks in my mind is that of Lt. Waverly Wray, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, who went on a one man recon and killed the commander and staff of the German unit that was preparing to counterattack. When the German bodies were found the next day, every one had been shot in the head. Lt. Wray was later KIA during Operation Market Garden.

[Retain Mike]

You are welcome. At the point of collision, he had to make an instantaneous decision of whether he could take these men prisoner and return them to his unit for their intelligence value, or whether he had to kill them on the spot. He was a good soldier.