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T/Sgt Sherrod C Lines

137th Infantry Regiment - Company E

Sherrod Clifford Lines, son of Arthur and Hattie Myrtle (Brown) Lines, was born February 2, 1916 in Horton, Kansas. He registered for the draft October 16, 1940 and was a member of the Kansas National Guard, mobilized to Federal Service December 23, 1940 at Holton, Kansas. He served in Company E, 137th Infantry Regiment and landed at Omaha Beach Normandy France July 8, 1944. He was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge August 1, 1944 and the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism during battle on September 12, 1944 in the vicinity of Luneville, France. He was promoted to T/Sgt, Platoon Sergeant on October 10, 1944. T/Sgt Sherrod C Lines was killed in action October 20, 1944 by a shell blast in the vicinity of Jallaucourt, France. He is buried at Holton Cemetery, Holton, Kansas.

Distinguished Service Cross

The President of the United States of America, authorized by act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Staff Sergeant Sherrod C Lines, 20725198, Company E, 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, United States Army. For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy. On 12 September 1944, Company E, 137th Infantry, with which Sergeant Lines was serving as a platoon leader, was advancing against the enemy near Luneville, France. When a rocket-launcher team of the company drove five enemy tanks into the woods, Sergeant Lines bravely maneuvered his way after them, carrying a sound-power telephone, creeping and crawling forward under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. He climbed a tree from which he directed artillery fire against the enemy tanks and in order to escape detection from an enemy machine-gun nest within thirty yards of his position, it was necessary that he whisper his fire directions into the telephone. His observation and fire direction were so accurate that three of the enemy tanks were destroyed and the others forced to withdraw. Sergeant Lines remained in his precarious position throughout the action, ignoring the danger from friendly artillery shells falling around him. His conspicuous courage and his supreme, heroic devotion to duty exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States. Headquarters, Third U. S. Army, General Orders No.97, 24 November 1944

The Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison KS - November 24, 1944