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John R. Crews (March 8, 1923 – September 25, 1999) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions at the Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher in World War II. Biography Crews joined the Army from Bowlegs, Oklahoma in 1942, and by April 8, 1945, was serving as a staff sergeant in Company F, 253rd Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division. On that day, near Stein-am-Kocher, Germany, Crews single-handedly destroyed two German emplacements. Crews died at age 76 and was buried in Resthaven Gardens Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is the great-uncle to author Kambri Crews. Medal of Honor citation Staff Sergeant Crews' official Medal of Honor citation reads: He displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on 8 April 1945 near Lobenbacherhof, Germany. As his company was advancing toward the village under heavy fire, an enemy machinegun and automatic rifle with rifle support opened upon it from a hill on the right flank. Seeing that his platoon leader had been wounded by their fire, S/Sgt. Crews, acting on his own initiative, rushed the strongpoint with 2 men of his platoon. Despite the fact that 1 of these men was killed and the other was badly wounded, he continued his advance up the hill in the face of terrific enemy fire. Storming the well-dug-in position single-handedly, he killed 2 of the crew of the machinegun at pointblank range with his M 1 rifle and wrested the gun from the hands of the German whom he had already wounded. He then with his rifle charged the strongly emplaced automatic rifle. Although badly wounded in the thigh by crossfire from the remaining enemy, he kept on and silenced the entire position with his accurate and deadly rifle fire. His actions so unnerved the remaining enemy soldiers that 7 of them surrendered and the others fled. His heroism caused the enemy to concentrate on him and permitted the company to move forward into the village. See also List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II References Citations Bibliography "John R. Crews American Hero". Crews family member. January 17, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-17. "Medal of Honor recipients - World War II (A–F)". Medal of Honor citations. United States Army Center of Military History. June 8, 2009. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved 2007-10-15.. Discover the John Crews popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Crews books.
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The Green Mile
Stephen KingMasterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscarnom...
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Ex Parte John D. Crews
Supreme Court of FloridaThe case is unusually free from the controversy commonly found in cases of this nature. For the state the following facts could be found by the jury: On the early morni...
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The Spirit of Icarus
John CrewsThe author uses the Greek myth of Icarus as a metaphor for that internal sprit that drives extreme athletes to pursue adventures not unlike Icarus’s own flight close to the sun. Th...
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John Denver
John CollisJohn Denver was America's biggestselling solo star of the '70s. In commercial terms he was on a par with Sinatra in the '40s, Elvis in the '50s and the Beatles in the '60s. He expe...
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Woke Up This Morning
Michael Imperioli & Steve SchirripaINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I will be reading and rereading Woke Up This Morning....These rollicking gabfests... bring together nearly everyone, on screen and off, who made t...
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The Night Crew
John Sandford#1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed Prey novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A.A mobile unit of vide...
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Discovering the Joy of High-Performance Skiing
John CrewsHighperformance skiing offers some of the greatest rewards and joys of any sport. The author has spent the winter half of his life enjoying these rewards through ski racing, freest...
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World of Mockery
Sam MoskowitzWhen John Hall walked on Ganymede, a thousand weird beings walked with him. He was one man on a sphere of mocking, mad creaturesone voice in a world of shrieking echoes. Sam Moskow...
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Rescuing JFK
Alan C. Elliott & Anna A KwaiRescuing JFK is the story of the PT109's dramatic rescue in World War II told from the perspective of the Solomon Islands Scouts who saved the crew. In this story, future pre...
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Aircrew
Bruce LewisA vivid, firsthand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the m...
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The Skeleton Crew
Deborah HalberSolving cold cases from the comfort of your living room…The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes–wannabes who race to beat out l...