Robert Hansen

Robert Hansen, DSC, died in July, 2014 in Moscow, ID. On 12 November 1944, during furious fighting near Many, France, his tank destroyer was disabled by enemy fire. Locating the source of enemy fire, he remounted his burning vehicle and fired the 76mm antitank gun until the destroyer was demolished. Then, braving the enemy fire, he aided crew members of another disabled destroyer until being knocked unconscious by an exploding shell.

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