70th ID Patch

70th ID Patch

Second Lieutenant Richard Lee McClintock served in the 276th Infantry regiment of the 70th Infantry Division. Richard was born in 1914 in South Carolina and would be killed in action on January 5th, 1945. Before enlisting in 1942 at Camp Blanding Florida, he would be marry his wife, Jewel. Second Lieutenant McClintock would be award a purple heart and silver star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy." He earned these awards while serving on an advanced party within the division called Task Force Herren, whose mission was to take defensive positions along the West Bank of the Rhine to stall what would be the final German offensive in the west, Operation Nordwind.

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1943

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