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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Turney White Leonard (June 18, 1921 - November 6, 1944) was a United States Army officer who received the U.S. military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.A native of Dallas, Texas, Leonard graduated from Texas A&M University in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture. By November 4, 1944, he was serving in Germany as a first lieutenant with Company C of the 893rd Tank Destroyer Battalion. On that day and the two following days, he commanded a platoon of mobile weapons in Kommerscheidt during the Battle of…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Turney White Leonard (June 18, 1921 - November 6, 1944) was a United States Army officer who received the U.S. military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.A native of Dallas, Texas, Leonard graduated from Texas A&M University in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture. By November 4, 1944, he was serving in Germany as a first lieutenant with Company C of the 893rd Tank Destroyer Battalion. On that day and the two following days, he commanded a platoon of mobile weapons in Kommerscheidt during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. Throughout the three days, he repeatedly exposed himself to hostile fire in order to direct the fire of his men and made lone reconnaissance patrols to scout the German positions.