🇺🇲WWII uncovered: They Fought for Your Freedom: Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Ralph Neppel: Hero of the 83rd Infantry Division


"By December 14, 1944 Ralph Neppel, of Willey Iowa, was serving as a Sergeant in Company M, 329th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. 


During a German counterattack on that day, at Birgel, Germany, one of his legs was severely damaged by enemy fire. He continued to operate his machine gun until the German force withdrew. Neppel survived his wounds, although his remaining leg was badly damaged and had to be amputated. 


On August 23, 1945, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman in a White House ceremony." -President Harry S. Truman Library and Museum 


⭐ Sergeant Neppel's Medal of Honor Citation reads as follows:


The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Ralph George Neppel, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company M, 329th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division.


 Sergeant Neppel was leader of a machinegun squad defending an approach to the village of Birgel, Germany, on 14 December 1944, when an enemy tank, supported by 20 infantrymen, counterattacked.


 He held his fire until the Germans were within 100 yards and then raked the foot soldiers beside the tank eliminating several of them. 


The enemy armor continued to press forward and, at the pointblank range of 30 yards, fired a high-velocity shell into the American emplacement, wounding the entire squad. Sergeant Neppel, blown ten yards from his post had one leg detached below the knee and suffered other wounds. 


Despite his injuries and the danger from the onrushing tank and infantry, he dragged himself back to his position on his elbows, remounted his gun and eliminated the remaining enemy riflemen.


 Stripped of its infantry protection, the tank was forced to withdraw. By his superb courage and indomitable fighting spirit, Sergeant Neppel inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and broke a determined counterattack.


During his recovery and rehabilitation at McCloskey General Hospital in Temple, Texas, Neppel was fitted with prostheses and was promoted from Sergeant to Technical Sergeant. 


He married his fiancee Jean Moore, and was discharged from the Army on February 18, 1946. Ralph later worked for the Veterans Administration for 22 years and served for eight years on the Iowa Governor's Committee for the Employment of the Handicapped.  


Technical Sergeant Ralph George Neppel passed away on January 27, 1987 at the age of 63. He lies in rest at Holy Family Cemetery in Lidderdale Iowa. Lest We Forget.

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