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14th Armored Division The Liberators

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Medal of Honor
PFC George B. Turner

499th Armored Field Artillery
C Battery
PFC Turner
PFC George B. Turner, the 14th Armored Division's only recipient of the Medal of Honor, earned the respect and admiration of his comrades in arms long before he committed the acts that earned him the nation's highest award for heroism.

Turner joined the Marine Corps in the First World War, but the war ended before he got overseas to join in the fighting. When the U.S. entered the Second World War, Turner volunteered once again to defend his country. This time he joined the U.S. Army. During training, many of the young soldiers and officers with whom he served came to admire his quiet strength and dedication to duty. Turner soon gained the reputation of being a good soldier who truly wanted to come to grips with the enemy. He lived up to that reputation, and more. At 46 years of age, he may have been the oldest recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Second World War. Regardless of age, Turner's deeds were, and remain, timeless.

Ardennes-Alsace

16 DEC 1944 - 25 JAN 1945

Rhineland

8 FEB 1945 - 27 MAR 1945

Central Europe

22 MAR 1945 - 2 MAY 1945

28 OCTOBER 1942

One place to begin is with a piece of paper - a piece of paper with three short paragraphs of official wording: "In accordance with General Orders, Headquarters, Armored Force, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1942, and pursuant to authority contained in letter, Headquarters, Army Ground Forces, Army War College, Washington, D.C., dated August 28, 1942, the 14th Armored Division is activated this date at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas."
Headquarters, 14th Armored Division, is opened at this station at 0100, November 15, 1942