>o« C. Soldier Wins Highest Military Award • t Tb« Ob»rT«r Bur,,. [draw, under orders, and the Com- WASHINGTON, April 2i-Pri- munists started out after them. Qbarmrr *.*!,** lfstt f t C4-iarleS T H Barker volunteered to cover Barker, a former textile worker , . , the from Pickens, S. C.. will receive retreat. "Private Barker re- MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1955 the Medal of Honor for sacrific- mained in his position and with a *mg his life to save his patrol in stream of automatic rifle fire Korea when its ammunition was kept the enemy practically exhausted. pinned down," n the presence of the Senate Mull said. nnd House of Representatives, and The 18-year-old infantryman Governor S.C. Hero learned the nation©s The last time I saw Private Olin D. Johnston. Major highest mill- D \©"~© . . . . Gen. Ralph Royce, Air Corps, pre sented to Representative A. O. Is Honored Sloan and Mrs. Sloan the Silver throwing his few remaining hand Star and the Order M the Purple. \. Barker of., Pit-kens, will re Heart, conferred posthumously on InKofffa his medal, at grenades. When the patrol got £".%;£ Z©et aa ounCcCordm ny ^ " ©»© ""-< © * © their son, Captain Raymond A. SEOUL i (UPI© Without there were only 12 rounds of am Sloan, for heroic action which re warning. Communist North Ko Sergeant Eugene D. Mull, Bu- munition left among the patro] sulted in his death." reans attacked American forces chanan, Va., the assistant patrol mcm bers. The unselfish actions J. Ed Smith, a resident of in the Imjin River area near leader, tells this eye-witness ac- of prj va te Barker, in my estima- ; Manila, a Clemson College class Kowang-San. Korea in late No count of the fight: tion, saved the lives of every man mate of the late Captain Sloan, in vember. 1951. I "Private Barker, with utter dis- on that patrol writing to members of the Sloan One of the GI©s. PFC. Noah 0. regard for his own personal safe- family about the cemetery where Knight. 22, of Jefferson. S. C.. _, ty, crawled to 3 position within ihe body of the late Captain Sloan although wounded in the attack, * 15 to 20 feet of the enemy©s dug- ;« interred. sa>s: ENTRANCE TO WAR HKKOES CEMETERY AT MANILA: rushed forward and sigle-hand- in position. Private Barker fired "This cemetery is one of the e
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