Medal of Honor Monday: Army Capt. James Burt

By Ammoland

By Katie Lange

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- While the Invasion of Normandy was the beginning of the end of the Nazi regime in Europe, the Battle of Aachen further solidified that. Aachen was the first major Germany city to fall to Allied forces during World War II — due in large part to the actions of young Army Capt. James Burt.

Burt was born in Massachusetts in July 1917 and, at 22, he graduated from Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

The new graduate was commissioned into the Army as a second lieutenant and began active duty in 1941, as U.S. concern over World War II was increasing.

Once the U.S. entered the war, Burt took part in major campaigns over the next few years in North Africa, Sicily and at D-Day, but he earned his Medal of Honor during the Battle of Aachen.

In September 1944, the U.S. Army pushed across Germany’s Siegfried Line along Germany’s western border near Aachen, the country’s westernmost city, which borders Belgium and the Netherlands.

President Harry S. Truman places the Medal of …Read the Rest

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