Robert D. Maxwell’s SECOND Silver Star citation

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the SILVER STAR MEDAL to

TECHNICIAN FIFTH GRADE ROBERT DALE MAXWELL
UNITED STATES ARMY

for service as set forth in the following

CITATION:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Silver Star to Technician Fifth Grade Robert Dale Maxwell (ASN: 37330616), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. On 7 September 1944, at 0100 hours, near Besancon, France, Technician Fifth Grade Maxwell voluntarily climbed the roof of a house, under heavy fire from hostile 20-mm. cannon and three machine guns, to lay an overhead wire crossing and thereby provide communications for his Battalion CP. Although still lame from an unhealed leg wound sustained in a previous campaign, Technician Fifth Grade Maxwell climbed to the ridgepole while machine gun bullets cut the roofing at his feet, and looped his wire over a radio antenna. Returning to the ground he volunteered to complete the overhead crossing by climbing a second house top. He proceeded on hands and knees toward the ridgepole, while shells crumbled the roofing a few yards from his foot. By completing his mission, he provided the Battalion Commander with instantaneous communications essential to the direction of the assault companies in the attack.

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Born: 26 Oct. 1920, Boise, Idaho… Saw action in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France… Served until 1945… Awarded the Medal of Honor, two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart… Departed: 11 May 2019… Interred: Terrebonne Pioneer Cemetery in Terrebonne, Ind.