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T/Sgt Woodrow Bugg enlisted in 1942 and was snet overseas in June 1944. He was wounded in action six months later ant was sent home of a 30-day rest. After returning to the front he was only ten days in action when he was killed.

In June 1945 he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross Medal for his heroic, single- handed assaults on German enemy machine gun positions which menaced the advance of his company`s attack on Schmira, Germany. He ordered his men to hit the ground when two well-concealed enemy machine guns opened up on them. Instantly realizing that only a skillfull flanking movement could eliminate the lethal fire, shooting his rifle from the hip, he advanced within 30 yards of the Wehrmacht guns and attacked the first emplacement with such fury that the gun was silenced in a matter of seconds and the entire crew was either dead or wounded. The target of the second gun, he fell gravely wounded amidst a hail of lead, but managed to struggle to his feet and fight on with his men to wipe out the second machine gun position before he died.

His brother Rollie served with the 10th Air Force in Birma and his brother Wallace was stationed with the guard of honor in San Francisco at the time of his death.