DOD: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Tech Sgt. Vernon McGarity
December 16, 2019
December 16, 2019
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news story:
Army Tech Sgt. Vernon McGarity spent the last few months of World War II in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. The actions that got him there helped the Allies win the critical Battle of the Bulge -- and earned him the Medal of Honor.
McGarity was born Dec. 1, 1921, in rural Right, Tennessee. He worked with the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps before being drafted into the . . .
Army Tech Sgt. Vernon McGarity spent the last few months of World War II in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. The actions that got him there helped the Allies win the critical Battle of the Bulge -- and earned him the Medal of Honor.
McGarity was born Dec. 1, 1921, in rural Right, Tennessee. He worked with the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps before being drafted into the . . .