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MULLINS, Oscar Mayo - Date of
birth
29 May 1919 -
Age
25 - Place of
birth
Jane, Dickenson County, Virginia -
Hometown
Haysi, Dickenson County, Virginia
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
33047090 -
Rank
Sergeant -
Function
unknown -
Unit
A Company,
629th Tank Destroyer Battalion
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Awards
Distinguished Service Cross,
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
26 December 1944 - Place of
death
In the vicinity of Grandmenil, Belgium
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
General M. Mullins (father)
Lillie M. (Epling) Mullins (mother)
Opal Mullins (sister)
Betty Mullins (sister)
Shirley Mullins (sister)
Ira L. Mullins (brother)
Gene T. Mullins (brother)
Willie F. Mullins (brother)
Ruby Mullins (sister)
More information
Sgt Oscar M. Mullins enlisted on 19 April 1941 at Roanoke, Virginia.Sgt Mullins was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross Medal posthumously. The citation reads: On the morning of 26 December 1944, Sgt Mullins and the four men in his tank crew had just finished breakfast when the Germans opened fire on their position. While under heavy fire from German tanks that had crept up close, Sgt Mullins got two men who were badly wounded out of the tank and sent two others to cover. Sgt Mullins leaped back into the tank and began firing on the advancing Germans. He destroyed or disabled nearly a dozen German tanks before his own tank exploded in a huge ball of fire.
Sgt Oscar M. Mullins is remembered at Davis Cemetery in Haysi, Dickenson County, Virginia with a memorial marker.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com Kingsport Times News / 1930 Census, WWII Draft Card
Photo source: www.findagrave.com, The News-Enterprise - 9 April 2022