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  • United States. A Signed Photograph of MOH Recipient, Paul Bert Huff, February 1944, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
  • United States. A Signed Photograph of MOH Recipient, Paul Bert Huff, February 1944, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
  • United States. A Signed Photograph of MOH Recipient, Paul Bert Huff, February 1944, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion
  • United States. A Signed Photograph of MOH Recipient, Paul Bert Huff, February 1944, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion

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United States. A Signed Photograph of MOH Recipient, Paul Bert Huff, February 1944, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion

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United States. A Signed Photograph of MOH Recipient, Paul Bert Huff, February 1944, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion

In color, signed at the upper right above his shoulder "C.S.M. Paul B. Huff" on the obverse, measuring 202 mm (w) x 252 mm (h), extremely fine. Accompanied by a copy of his citation, which is signed "C.S.M. Paul B. Huff M.O.H." along the bottom edge.

 

Footnote: Paul Bert Huff was born on June 23, 1918 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee and made his home in Cleveland. Huff joined the United States Army from Cleveland in June 1941. He was serving in the rank of Corporal with Company A, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, Fifth Army, United States Army, and was in action on February 8, 1944 near Carano, Italy, when his actions that day earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor from the War Department, General Orders No. 41, May 26, 1944, His citation states: "The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Paul Bert Huff, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty, in action on 8 February 1944, while serving with Company A, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 5th Army, in action near Carano, Italy. Corporal Huff volunteered to lead a six-man patrol with the mission of determining the location and strength of an enemy unit which was delivering fire on the exposed right flank of his company. The terrain over which he had to travel consisted of exposed, rolling ground, affording the enemy excellent visibility. As the patrol advanced, its members were subjected to small arms and machine gun fire and a concentration of mortar fire, shells bursting within five to ten yards of them and bullets striking the ground at their feet.

Moving ahead of his patrol, Corporal Huff drew fire from three enemy machine guns and a 20-mm. weapon. Realizing the danger confronting his patrol, he advanced alone under deadly fire through a minefield and arrived at a point within 75 yards of the nearest machine gun position. Under direct fire from the rear machine gun, he crawled the remaining 75 yards to the closest emplacement, killed the crew with his sub-machine gun and destroyed the gun. During this act he fired from a kneeling position which drew fire from other positions, enabling him to estimate correctly the strength and location of the enemy. Still under concentrated fire, he returned to his patrol and led his men to safety. As a result of the information he gained, a patrol in strength sent out that afternoon, one group under the leadership of Corporal Huff, succeeded in routing an enemy company of 125 men, killing 27 Germans and capturing 21 others, with a loss of only three patrol members. Corporal Huff's intrepid leadership and daring combat skill reflect the finest traditions of the American infantryman." He died on September 21, 1994 in Cleveland, at the age of 76 and is buried in Hilcrest Memorial Gardens in Cleveland, Plot: Grandview Section, Lot 250, Space 1. Paul Huff Parkway, a major thoroughfare in Cleveland, Tennessee, is named in his honor, as is the Paul B. Huff Army Reserve Center, located in Nashville.

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