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- Sidney Pigmon was born on December 25, 1915.
He joined the service on September 16, 1940 and received his
battlefield commission on December 12, 1944.
He was from Colson, Kentucky.
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- Pigmon was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for actions on
the morning of January 18, 1945 when he led his 410th,
C-Company platoon in an attack on a German held railroad line near
Sessenheim, France.
Despite machinegun wounds to the shoulder and leg, Lt Pigmon rallied
his men and led them in the attack.
He was last seen “advancing courageously over the fire-swept
terrain in the direction of the objective”
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- He is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Garden of Memories, in Ft.
Worth, Texas. He was 29
years old.
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