Private Milo C Huempfner
Service Company
551st Parachute Infantry Battalion
On 23-24 January 1944, Private Milo Huempfner found
himself separated from his unit and all alone near the
village of Leignon, Belgium and facing a major thrust of
the German Army in the Ardenne region.
Private Huempfner lived to tell the tale for his
extraordinary heroism that day, he was awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross.
Private Huempfner receives his DSC from 82nd Airborne’s
General March.
The attached documents are a record of this brave action
and the debt we own to Corporal Hill and the men of the
551st Parachute Infantry Battalion.
