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NAME: BROTHER'S OBIT, YORK DAILY RECORD, 5 DEC 2003
BIRTH: 1930 CENSUS, SHREWSBURY, YORK, PENNSYVLANIA
BIRTH, DEATH: FIND A GRAVE
BURIED CROSS ROADS UMC
August 10, 1944 Gazette and Daily - RECEIVES SILVER STAR POSTHUMOUSLY
Pfc George M. Stermer, Mt. Wolf, has been posthumously awarded the
Silver Star for protecting the advance of his company from attack from
the rear at the cost of his life, June 15. Pfc. Stermer, a rifleman
who served in an armored infantry regiment in Africa and Sicily before
the action in France, was picking off German infantrymen who were
attempting to cut off the American unit from the rear. Observing an
enemy machine gun unit being set up, he kept up a continual fire
against the enemy, keeping the gun crew pinned down until his unit had
passed safely out of range. He was killed shortly after by enemy fire.
Mrs. Hawk received word that her husband, Major Ira A. Hawk, was
killed in action in France July 3, 1944 . From a book: The Armored
Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War. (Major
killed) Their first day of combat....
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1920 - 1944 (24 years)
