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Surnames: Call
Classification: Military
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Source:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm
CALL, DONALD M.
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps. Place and date:
Near Varennes, France, 26 September 1918. Entered service at: France. Born: 29 November
1892, New York, N.Y. G.O. No.: 13, W.D., 1919. Citation: During an operation against enemy
machinegun nests west of Varennes, Cpl. Call was in a tank with an officer when half of
the turret was knocked off by a direct artillery hit. Choked by gas from the
high-explosive shell, he left the tank and took cover in a shellhole 30 yards away. Seeing
that the officer did not follow, and thinking that he might be alive, Cpl. Call returned
to the tank under intense machinegun and shell fire and carried the officer over a mile
under machinegun and sniper fire to safety.
BURIAL INFORMATION
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Cemetery: Cremated
Born: 1892 New York, NY
Died: 1984
Additional Information and cemetery monument photo:
http://www.homeofheroes.com/gravesites/states/pages_af/call_donald.html
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