On the night of September 12–13, 1944, in France, Second Lieutenant Almond Fisher of Company E, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division led a pre-dawn assault against a heavily fortified German hill position.

When his platoon was hit by machine-gun fire from less than 20 yards away, Lt. Fisher crawled forward alone and killed the entire gun crew with his carbine.

Minutes later, he destroyed another machine gun with grenades.

And another.

Crossing open ground under fire, eliminating hidden positions, and even killing a German soldier who sprang from a foxhole during close combat, Fisher repeatedly led from the front.

With only two grenades left in the entire platoon, he pulled both pins and crawled to within 15 yards of another enemy gun—destroying it.

Later, wounded in both feet and unable to walk, he crawled from man to man during a fierce German counterattack, encouraging his soldiers as they fought in close quarters.

Only after the battle ended did he crawl 300 yards to an aid station.

For extraordinary heroism and leadership under fire, Almond Fisher was awarded the Medal of Honor.

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