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Gilbert Spencer Sender

He was known by his mates as "mailman" due to his last name and aggressiveness on the battlefield. Sender helped in the victorious effort by the US Army in The Battle Of The Bulge in the mid 1940s. He was fired at by German machine gunners while firing a Browning Automatic Rifle at the Germans. He was later taken to a hospital, where he died of loss of blood. Gilbert received the Silver Star for his valiant actions in the war.