Robert Dale Maxwell (October 26, 1920 – May 11, 2019) was a United States Army combat soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration for valor—the Medal of Honor—for his heroism in France during World War II. [12], In 2011, at the age of 90, he received his high school diploma from Bend Senior High School. In 2012, Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, named its student veterans center after Maxwell. He saw action in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, followed by Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, in August 1944. Private, Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Volunteer Defence Corps (WW2) BRYANT, John Henry Stephensen.
He entered the Army in July 1940 and joined the Third Infantry Division.
Robert Maxwell in an undated photograph. Technician Fifth Grade Maxwell and a few other G.I.s were on observation duty outside their battalion headquarters near the city of Besançon in eastern France when German soldiers got within yards of their outpost and opened fire. [1][4], He then taught auto mechanics at Bend High School in Bend, Oregon and later helped establish an auto mechanics program at Central Oregon Community College. [1][3][6] He survived the wounds from the grenade blast and was awarded the Medal of Honor on April 6, 1945. Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991), was a British media proprietor, Member of Parliament (MP), and fraudster. Maxwell was born into a poor Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish family in the small town of Slatinské Doly (now Solotvyno, Ukraine) in the easternmost province of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia. [13], Maxwell's military awards and decorations include:[14].
The G.I.s on sentry duty were armed only with .45-caliber automatic pistols, but they fired back. “You saved my life,” he told Mr. Maxwell.
In 1991, his body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having fallen overboard from his yacht. When Mr. Maxwell died on Saturday in Bend at 98, he was the oldest surviving recipient of the medal, the military’s highest award for valor. During the early stages of the subsequent Battle of Anzio in January 1944, Private First Class Maxwell repaired damaged wire lines to maintain communication under intense artillery fire for over three hours on January 31 and was wounded in the leg. In 1939, the area was reclaimed by Hungary. [3][9] He also received an oak leaf cluster to his Silver Star, which was awarded for an earlier action on September 7, 1944.
[8][10], After the war, Maxwell enrolled in vocational school for two years in Eugene, Oregon to be an auto mechanic.
This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 02:48. For his actions under fire that day, he was awarded the Silver Star. The Germans occupied the stone headquarters house, but American artillery obliterated it hours later.
He had six siblings. This was between 1 and 2 in the morning. He was buried in Jerusalem. [10], For other people named Robert Maxwell, see, Warmer, Gary A., "Nation’s Oldest Medal of Honor Recipient Dies,", European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II, "Robert Maxwell, oldest Medal of Honor recipient, dies in Bend at 98", "Bend’s Bob Maxwell, nation’s oldest Medal of Honor recipient, dies", "Robert Maxwell, World War II Hero Who Fell on a Grenade, Dies at 98", "Robert D. Maxwell: The Oldest Living Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor – Write to Win!
He dropped out of school in the seventh grade to help his family on their farm. In November 2013, Maxwell's photo was one of 12 photos of service uniformed Medal of Honor recipients on the cover sheet of a U.S.
Maxwell was drafted into the United States Army and entered service from Larimer County, Colorado, in June 1941. He was raised by his grandparents on their farm in Quinter, Kansas. BROWN, Robert Maxwell. Despite a hail of fire from automatic weapons and grenade launchers, Technician 5th Grade Maxwell aggressively fought off advancing enemy elements and, by his calmness, tenacity, and fortitude, inspired his fellows to continue the unequal struggle. Cyril McColl, one of the G.I.s in the Besançon courtyard, told of Mr. Maxwell’s heroics in falling on that live grenade in an article in the June 1945 issue of Collier’s magazine.
He was offered and refused "conscientious objector" status by the army for being a Quaker. 24, 6 April 1945, For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 7 September 1944, near Besancon, France.
After his training, he worked a two-year apprenticeship for an Oldsmobile car dealership in Redmond, Oregon. “While the rest of us were blown off our feet, we got up without a scratch,” Technician McColl remembered. (General Ramsey died in 2016 at 97. “I’d like to say thank you a million times for all you did for us. Maxwell's official Medal of Honor citation reads: Rank and organization: Technician Fifth Grade, U.S. Army, 7th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division His survivors include four daughters, Verda, Linda and Sharon Maxwell and Bonnie Spies, as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He dropped out of school in the seventh grade to help his family run a farm in western Kansas during the Depression. Using an Army blanket for protection, he fell on the grenade. There was nothing else to do.”, Robert Maxwell, World War II Hero Who Fell on a Grenade, Dies at 98. “I could hear it fall right near my feet,” Mr. Maxwell told the cable TV station COTV of Bend, Ore., long afterward. The Germans blasted away with automatic weapons and even antiaircraft guns, seeking to destroy the stone house where the battalion commanders were stationed. He continued as the director of the non-profit Bend Heroes Foundation. In October 2010, Mr. Maxwell visited a retirement community in Roanoke, Va., for a reunion with retired Maj. Gen. Lloyd Ramsey, who had been the battalion commander inside that stone house at Besançon. This page was last changed on 29 May 2020, at 04:40. Gunner, 11th Garrison Battalion, Citizen Military Forces (CMF) / Militia - WW2.
His parents were Mechel Hoch and Hannah Slomowitz. [1][2][3][4] At the time of his death, he was the only Medal of Honor recipient residing in Oregon. He died in Bend on May 11, 2019, at the age of 98. “I didn’t know for sure where it was. [1] In 2012, Maxwell suffered a minor stroke, but recovered after only a few days with only minor loss of functionality of his right hand.
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