Talk:Charles N. DeGlopper

OFF POINT
IMHO, the below excerpt is more on the history of the 82nd before DeGlopper's last stand than is appropriate to an article on this hero. OTOH, I do think something of the back ground should be appropriately included...

Medal of Honor action
It was not until the In the late evening of D-Day, 6 June 1944, the 82nd Airborne’s glider troops began to arrive in France. Mission Keokuk brought in thirty-two Horsa gliders from Aldermaston airfield at 2100, seven minutes ahead of schedule. Five of these landed on the correct landing zone while a further fourteen landed within two miles. , Mission Elmira which involved 176 CG-4 Waco and Airspeed Horsa gliders arriving in two serialized groups ran into misfortune&mdash; serials, the first of which was released early and near the German antiaircraft batteries. U under heavy fire, the slow moving gliders were widely dispersed and few reached their allotted landing zone. 80% of the Horsas and 50% of the Wacos were destroyed. The second serial was more accurate and most of the gliders crash-landed within a mile of their allotted landing zone. But again, fifty-six of the eighty-six Horsas were wrecked and fourteen Wacos were demolished. B, but the glidermen were still able to recover some equipment and take the fight to the Germans. The final two glider landings were scheduled for 7 June 1944 in Missions Galveston and Hackensack bringing in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment. Mission Galveston arrived in two serials of fifty gliders each and while the first had something of a disastrous landing, the second faired slightly better, but less than 50% of their equipment was recoverable. Mission Hackensack, the last to arrive, brought in the remaining 1,300 glidermen of the 325th GIR and their equipment. Also arriving in two serials, the gliders began landing on the 7th at 0900. Despite heavy antiaircraft fire, both serials reached their destinations relatively unscathed with fifty-eight gliders in the first serial landing within five miles of their allotted landing zone and fifty of the second serial landing within a mile of their target. Despite the apparent destruction on the ground, the operation was a great success with most of the troops and nearly all of their equipment getting delivered to the battlefield. Nearly 90% of the 325th GIR’s men were assembled within a few hours of landing and moved towards Chef du Pont, France. Leading his troops, Colonel Harry Lewis was ordered to make a crossing of the le Merderet River and help attack the La Fière Bridge from the opposite side. Seeing a small fording area across the river, Col. Lewis sent his 1st Battalion to wade across under cover of darkness, their objective was to attack the force defending the bridge. Themselves under attack, C Company 1st Battalion was cut off from the rest of the battalion and while under increased fire, Private First Class Charles DeGlopper stood up and began to fire his Browning Automatic Rifle at the attacking Germans. Although wounded, PFC DeGlopper continued...

Having further accessed this, I'm just cutting out the off-topic material. // Fra nkB 14:58, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

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