THE TERRIBLE DEATH OF JAMES LINDELL HARRIS OF HILLSBORO...

 James Lindell Harris of Hillsboro, Texas, a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on October 7, 1944, near Vagney, France.



Harris was drafted into the Army in March 1941, eventually receiving a battlefield commission in March 1944. By October 7, 1944, he was serving as a second lieutenant in the 756th Tank Battalion. 

On that day, near Vagney, France, he commanded an M4 Sherman tank in a hunt for an enemy raiding party that had infiltrated Allied lines.

 He was seriously wounded by enemy fire but managed to crawl back to his tank and lead his crew, but was again severely wounded in the ensuing firefight. He refused medical attention until another wounded man had been evacuated and subsequently died of his injuries.

He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on October 7, 1944. Harris is buried at Ridge Park Cemetery in Hillsboro, Texas.

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On October 6, 1943, American and Japanese ships fought the naval Battle of Vella Lavella after nine Japanese destroyers arrived to evacuate troops from New Georgia island. 


The battle was fought near the island of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands. It marked the end of a three-month fight to capture the central Solomon Islands as part of the Solomon Islands Campaign.

The battle occurred at the end of the ground campaign on Vella Lavella, as the Japanese sought to evacuate the 600-strong garrison from the island. The garrison had become hemmed into a small pocket on the island's northern end around Marquana Bay. 

While around 20 auxiliary ships and barges evacuated the stranded soldiers, nine Japanese destroyers fought a short but sharp engagement with six U.S. Navy destroyers to the north of the island, diverting attention from the evacuation. As a result of the engagement, the Japanese evacuation effort was successfully concluded, but the U.S. recaptured the island, ending the second phase of Operation Cartwheel. Each side lost one destroyer.

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