Historical Marker
Lt. Jake W. Lindsey
Waynesboro, Wayne County · Mississippi
Erected 1984
The medal came for one afternoon. On November 16, 1944, near Hamich, Germany, Technical Sergeant Lindsey of the 1st Infantry Division's 16th Infantry took a position about ten yards ahead of his platoon during an enemy tank-and-infantry counterattack. His fire destroyed two machine-gun nests and forced two tanks to withdraw. Though painfully wounded, he then fought eight German soldiers hand to hand, killing three, capturing three and driving off two. He later served on the Doolittle Board and in Korea, and he died in Waynesboro in 1988.
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