National Guard and Sergeant Peregory Memorial
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Description
The monument here in the round-a-bout marks where Sergeant Frank Peregory earned his Medal of Honor as part of 3rd Battalion 116th Regiment when they were attacked by a German machine-gun unit on June 8. Peregory attacked the Germans with just a few hand grenades and a bayonet and succeeded in taking 35 POWs. Sergeant Peregory is buried in the US cemetery at Normandy. The memorial was erected on the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings (1994).
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Creator
foundation
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Date
1994
Source
National Guard Association
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This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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foundation, “National Guard and Sergeant Peregory Memorial,” War Memorial HQ, accessed March 14, 2025, http://warmemorialhq.org/items/show/181.
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