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After the Citadel and Officer Candidate School Andrew Z Adkins Jr was sent to the 80th Infantry Division then training in the CaliforniaArizona desert There he was assigned as an 81mm mortar section leader in Company H 2nd Battalion 317th Infantry Regiment
Lieutenant Adkins and his fellow soldiers took part in light hedgerow fighting that served to shake the division down and familiarize the troops and their officers with combat While scouting for mortar positions in the woods Adkins met a group of Germans and shot one of them dead with his carbine This baptism in blood settled the question faced by every novice combatant He was cool under fire capable of killing when facing the enemy
Adkins acted with skill and courage placing himself at the forefront of the action whenever he could His extremely aggressive delivery of critical supplies to a cutoff unit in an embattled French town earned him a Bronze Star the first in his battalion
Before his death Andy Adkins was able to face his memory of war as bravely as he faced war itself In 194445 he did his duty to his men and countryand here he serves new generations of military and civilian listeners
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