Nicholas Oresko
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Nicholas Oresko (January 18, 1917 – October 4, 2013) was an American combat veteran of World War II who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions in Germany on January 23, 1945.
Biography
Oresko was born in Bayonne, New Jersey on January 18, 1917. He came from an ethnic Ukrainian family. Oresko graduated from Bayonne High School.
World War II
He joined the US Army in March 1942. He was sent to Europe and arrived in France in September 1944, three months after the Normandy landings. A platoon sergeant in Company C, 1st Battalion, 302nd Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division, he spent the next several months with his unit mopping up pockets of German soldiers who had been bypassed in the Allies' initial push through the northern part of France. In December 1944, the 94th Division was redeployed to replace the 90th Infantry Division as part of General Patton's Third Army. The 94th Division assumed positions opposite the Westwall and the German's 11th Panzer Division.
On January 23, 1945, near Tettingen, Germany, Master Sergeant Oresko
single-handedly and under enemy fire, took out a German bunker position that was armed with a machine gun.
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