- SURNAME
Dorman
- FORENAME
Elwood Lewis
- UNIT
5 Ranger Bn (Company D)
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
33504795
- AWARD
Silver Star
- PLACE
Normandy 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 16.04.1924 Middleburg, Pennsylvania, USA
mother Mrs. Leon Wenrich
grammar school education
civil occupation unskilled occupations in production of miscellaneous food products
single without dependents upon enlistment
30.06.1942 draft card Millmont, Pennsylvania (shows forename as Ellwood)
19.03.1943 entered service Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
09.1944 WIA
10.1944 released from hospital
30.10.1945 discharged Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania
37 years self employed truck driver
husband of Joyce (11 years married)
died 13.9.2006 (Aged 82)
CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class Elwood L. Dorman (ASN: 33504795), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion, V Corps, in action on the coast of France on 6 June 1944.
On the strongly fortified enemy-held beach near Vierville-sur-Mer, France, Private First Class Dorman, a rifleman, landed under a devastating and withering hail of enemy machine gun, sniper, artillery, and mortar fire from strategically located positions commanding the cliffs overlooking the beach. After crossing the open beach to the protection of a seawall, where the advance of the entire battalion was halted by thick wire entanglements, covered by enemy fire, Pfc. Dorman left the protection of the seawall and with a comrade worked his way forward through intense fire and blew a gap in the tactical wire with a bangalore torpedo.
With utter disregard for his own personal safety he rushed through the gap in full view of the enemy and pointed the way for the remainder of company and battalion, thus enabling them to move forward and successfully secure the beachhead.
Source : The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pennsylvania · Thursday, June 21, 1945
On the strongly fortified enemy-held beach near Vierville-sur-Mer, France, Private First Class Dorman, a rifleman, landed under a devastating and withering hail of enemy machine gun, sniper, artillery, and mortar fire from strategically located positions commanding the cliffs overlooking the beach. After crossing the open beach to the protection of a seawall, where the advance of the entire battalion was halted by thick wire entanglements, covered by enemy fire, Pfc. Dorman left the protection of the seawall and with a comrade worked his way forward through intense fire and blew a gap in the tactical wire with a bangalore torpedo.
With utter disregard for his own personal safety he rushed through the gap in full view of the enemy and pointed the way for the remainder of company and battalion, thus enabling them to move forward and successfully secure the beachhead.
Source : The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pennsylvania · Thursday, June 21, 1945
WEB LINKS:
• https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/86996• http://www.rangerroster.org/SearchDetails.asp?ID=5582
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