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Macario García..Hero of Bravo Company


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Macario García..Hero of Bravo Company

Private Macario García, an immigrant of Mexico and resident of Sugar Land Texas, landed at Normandy on D-Day with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He was wounded during the beach landing and spent four months in recovery. He later rejoined his unit in Germany, where his actions would earn him the nation's most prestigious military honor.

On Nov. 27, 1944, Bravo Company came under fire near Grosshau, Germany. Serving as an acting squad leader, García was badly wounded in the shoulder and foot. He refused evacuation and pushed on alone toward two enemy machine gun nests. With some grenades and his rifle, he wiped out the nests, stopping six enemy soldiers and taking four more captive. He continued fighting with his Soldiers and was removed for medical care only after the company successfully seized its objective. 

Private García's Medal of Honor Citation reads as follows: 

Staff Sergeant Macario García, Company B, 22nd Infantry, in action involving actual conflict with the enemy in the vicinity of Grosshau, Germany, 27 November 1944. While an acting squad leader, he single-handedly assaulted two enemy machine gun emplacements. Attacking prepared positions on a wooded hill, which could be approached only through meager cover. His company was pinned down by intense machine-gun fire and subjected to a concentrated artillery and mortar barrage. Although painfully wounded, he refused to be evacuated and on his own initiative crawled forward alone until he reached a position near an enemy emplacement. Hurling grenades, he boldly assaulted the position, destroyed the gun, and with his rifle stopped three of the enemy who attempted to escape. When he rejoined his company, a second machine-gun opened fire and again the intrepid soldier went forward, utterly disregarding his own safety. He stormed the position and destroyed the gun, mortally wounded three more Germans, and captured four prisoners. He fought on with his unit until the objective was taken and only then did he permit himself to be removed for medical care.

García returned home as a Staff Sergeant in February 1945 and received the Medal of Honor from President Harry S. Truman later that year. He also received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantryman's Badge.

After the war García gained his US citizenship in 1947 and his high school diploma in 1951. In the later years of his life, Garcia worked as a counselor at the Veteran's Administration offices in Houston for 25 years.

At the age of 52, Macario García died on December 24, 1972, after he was injured in an automobile accident. Staff Sergeant García was buried with full military honors at Houston National Cemetery. In the early 1980s, the city of Houston renamed a street and the local Army Reserve center in his honor. Lest We Forget.

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Original text cited from army.mil (Marine Corps St/Sgt. Jen S. Martinez author September 6, 2018) and www.tshaonline.org

 

 

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