Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 301st Engineer Combat Battalion, 76th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Prumzurley, Germany, 27 February 1945. Entered service at: Lubbock, Tex. Birth: Marlow, Okla. G.O. No.: 92, 25 October 1945.
Citation... He displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity.
While helping clear enemy mines from a road, he stepped on a
well-concealed S-type antipersonnel mine. Hearing the
characteristic noise indicating that the mine had been activated
and, if he stepped aside, would be thrown upward to explode
above ground and spray the area with fragments, surely killing 2
comrades directly behind him and endangering other members of
his squad, he deliberately placed his other foot on the mine
even though his best chance for survival was to fall prone. Pvt.
Wallace was killed when the charge detonated, but his supreme
heroism at the cost of his
Wallace, Herman C.
