Staff Sergeant Leroy C. Cloud from Thrall, Texas, served as a member of the four-man crew of an M5A1 Stuart light tank during World War II. Their tank was involved in heavy combat near Saint-Germain-d’Elle, a few miles east of Saint-Lô in Normandy, on July 26, 1944, when a German Panzerschreck anti-tank rocket set it on fire. Two of the crew managed to escape, but Cloud and Corporal Robert A. Bartlett died inside. Artillery fire prevented the survivors to recover the bodies of the dead.
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