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Sgt Charles H. Mc Millan was a hotel clerk before he enlisted in Detroit, Michigan on 25 March 1941.

One picture shows his original grave with still a wooden cross. The fourth picture was taken during a visit of relatives.

Sgt Mc Millan was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously. The citation cited: On 7 April 1945, after the encirclement of the enemy was accomplished and the process of cleaning out enemy resistance within the circle begun, the observation post group, including Sgt Mc Millan and two air-liasion officers started to check the position on the flank of the battalion, when they came under fire from enemy from their rear. After a fire fight, the enemy was driven off, one of the liasion officers was missing and it was surmised that he had returned in the direction from which the group had come. Sgt Mc Millan volunteered to search for the officer and also to convey information to the companies regarding the enemy activity. Successfully reaching the companies under enemy fire, he found the officer and started back to the observation post group. About twenty minutes later, Sgt Mc Millan's body was found, riddled by seventeen bullets. Interrogation of subsequently captured enemy soldiers revealed that a force of eight or ten enemy opened fire on him with machine pistols and he had valiantly returned fire until his death.