134th Infantry Regiment Website
"All Hell Can't Stop Us"
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134th Infantry Regiment Website"All Hell Can't Stop Us" |
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Herbert Louis Reynerson, son of Alvin Charles and Cora Lennie (Wester) Reynerson, was born July 4, 1918 in Hope Arkansas. He registered for the draft on October 16, 1940. At the time he was living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and working for Standard Theater Corporation. He married Ruth Eileen Freie August 26, 1941 and the couple had a son, Craig Alan Reynerson. He was inducted into the Army June 2, 1942 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He joined Company B, 320th Infantry Regiment January 19, 1945 from the 53rd Replacement Battalion. Staff Sergeant Herbert L Reynerson was killed in action March 9, 1945 in the vicinity of Drupt, Germany just west of the Rhine river. He was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for heroism during the battle in which he died. He is buried at Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.
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Bronze Star Medal Citation |
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Staff Sergeant Herbert L Reynerson, 38152553, Infantry, United States Army, for heroic service in connection with military operations against an enemy of the United States in * ** , Germany on 9 March 1945. During vicious house-to-house fighting which followed entry of his unit into the village of * * *, Sergeant Reynerson led his squad in an assault on a house from which an enemy machine gun was firing. He threw a smoke grenade through a window, but was killed by enemy fire as he dashed to the door of the house. Sergeant Reynerson's heroic self-sacrifice made possible the capture of this strongpoint and its defenders, who were forced out of the house by the smoke, and promptly surrendered. Entered military service from Oklahoma. General Orders No. 24, Headquarters 35th Infantry Division, 3 April 1945 |
