MEDICAL SECTION, THIRD BATTALION, 36Th. ARMORED INFANTRY REGIMENT
The Medical Section, 3rd. Battalion, 36 Armored Infantry Regiment, is cited for outstanding performance of duty in action in Germany during the period from 17 to 21 September 1944. Throughout this bitter engagement, the Medical Section, 3rd. Battalion, 36 Armored Infantry Regiment labored unceasingly despite devastating hostile artillery, mortar, and small arms fire, administering medical aid and evacuating casualties Although several members of the section were themselves painfully wounded, they denied themselves treatment or rest until their patients had been cared for .On one occasion, when an adjacent battalion was forced back, leaving the aid station unprotected, the members of the section continued the care for the wounded, realizing that to move the patients would have been in many cases, fatal. Litter squads operated in the face of intense fire between the aid station and advanced units, evacuating casualties .Aid men moved with foremost assault Unit, rendering immediate medical treatment to the wounded The unflinching courage and superb devotion to duty displayed by the members of the Medical Section, 3rd Battalion, 36th. Armored Infantry Regiment directly resulted in the saving of many lives, exemplifying the highest tradition of the military service.
OFFICIAL: JOHN A. SMITH, JR.,
Colonel, G. S .C.,
Chief of Staff
/s/ROBERT N. GANT
ROBERT N. GANT
Lt. Colonel, Adjutant General's Department
Adjutant General.
EDMOND SPIEGELMAN
Capt. 36th Armd. Inf. Regt.
Adjutant