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Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
By Patrick K. O'Donnell
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By Steve Brown
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 35420" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Burriss </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Thomas Moffatt </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>504 Parachute Infantry Regiment (HQ Company,3 Bn + Company I) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>First Lieutenant + Captain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">0-401623</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Silver Star,Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster and V device </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Europe </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born Anderson,South Carolina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Clemson University 1940 (ROTC)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>physics and science teacher,Orangeburg High School,South Carolina</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>entered service 9.1.1942 Fort Benning,Georgia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 Bn 504 PIR (2Lt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HQ Company (S2),3 Bn 504 PIR (1st Lt) September 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Company I,3 Bn 504 PIR (Captain) April 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA 20.9.1944 Waal River crossing,Holland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>building contractor,South Carolina postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served 15 years with South Carolina House of Representatives</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Louisa Hay 22.6.1942 Morristown,South Carolina (4 children) (deceased)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Jean Wheelwright</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>author "</em><a href="https://amzn.to/3iuIJMR" target="_blank"><em>Strike and Hold: A Memoir of the 82d Airborne in World War II</em></a><em>" (2000)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>residing Columbia,South Carolina 2000</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/t-m-burriss.8384/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8384-fff2f55b529ea59aba16aba61b859d16.jpg?1591389266" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/t-m-burriss.10837/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/10/10837-1463ad61d90660423f7370b2f4f8c585.jpg?1591389933" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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