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Bennear, Robert B., Pfc.
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Home Town Thomas
Date of Passing Nov 14, 1999
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PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ROBERT B. BENNEAR WORKED AS A TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH REPAIRMAN BEFORE ENTERING THE SERVICE ON 3 AUGUST 1942. HE SERVED IN EUROPE WITH HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 354TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 89TH INFANTRY DIVISION FROM 21 JANUARY 1945 TO 14 DECEMBER 1945. AFTER RETURNING STATESIDE PFC BENNEAR WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED ON 28 DECEMBER 1945 AT FORT MEADE MARYLAND. ROBERT B. BENNEAR PASSED AWAY ON 14 NOVEMBER 1999 AT LAKELAND FLORIDA.
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I WAS UNABLE TO FIND A CITATION FOR PFC BENNEAR'S SILVER STAR BUT THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ON THE 89TH'S WEBSITE MAY GIVE SOME INSIGHT.
During the morning a Regimental wire crew, working along the west bank of the Rhine, was subjected to heavy enemy machine gun and 20mm fire which forced them to take cover in a cave. Pfc. Robert B. Bennear, Regimental Hq Co., the crew's driver, heard a call for help from two wounded men who had drifted ashore. He left the cave and went down to the shore to the men amid a hail of enemy fire. One by one he carried them to his quarter ton truck and drove them a mile along a fire-swept road that bordered the river to the 1st Battalion aid station. Then he drove back over the same hazardous route to return to his crew in their cave.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Central Europe Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
March / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
Description (Central Europe Campaign 22 March to 11 May 1945) Following the Battle of the Bulge the Allies had pushed through to the Rhine. On 22 March 1945 they began their assault across the river, and by I April the Ruhr was encircled. Armored columns raced across Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 25 April, the day American and Russian forces met on the Elbe, strategic bombing operations came to an end. Germany surrendered on 7 May 1945 and operations officially came to an end the following day, although sporadic actions continued on the European front until 11 May.
