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Home Town Wilmington, Delaware
Last Address Wilmington, Delaware
Date of Passing Jul 27, 1994
Location of Interment Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery - Bear, Delaware
World War II Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Sergeant in the US Army in Battle Patrol, 7th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Cape Cavalaire, Southern France on August 15, 1944. His citation reads in part "Again emphasizing the prevalent urgency of the mission, he impellied his men toward a group of buildings honeycombed with enemy snipers, and machine guns. Here he received his third grave wound. Still resolved to carry on, he relinquished command only after his attempts proved that it was physically impossible to stand. Nevertheless, from his prone position he gave the orders and directed his men in assaulting the enemy. Infused with Sgt. Connor's dogged determination, the platoon, though reduced to less than one-third of its original 36 men, outflanked and rushed the enemy with such furiousness that they killed seven, captured 40, seized three machine guns and considerable other material, and took all their assigned objectives, successfully completing their mission. By his repeated examples of tenaciousess and indomitable spirit, Sgt. Connor transmitted his heroism to his men until they became a fighting team which could not be stopped."
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Sicily Campaign (1943)
From Month/Year
July / 1943
To Month/Year
August / 1943
Description (Sicily Campaign 9 July to 17 August 1943) In preparation for the invasion of Sicily the Allies captured the islands in the Sicilian strait, with aerial bombardment forcing the capitulation of Pantelleria on 11 June 1943. By that time Allied air power had begun the attack on Sicily by bombing defenses and airfields. The invasion itself got under way on the night of 9/10 July with airborne landings that were followed the next day by an amphibious assault. The enemy offered strong resistance, but the Allies had superiority in the air and soon had planes operating from Sicilian bases to support Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Patton’s Seventh.
Interdictory operations against communications in Italy and between Italy and Sicily convinced the enemy that it would be impossible to move strong reinforcements. By 17 August 1943 the Allies were in possession of the island, but they had not been able to prevent a German evacuation across the Strait of Messina.