Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry

Henry's Medal of Honor came from a sprint. At Luchem, Germany, on December 3, 1944, he volunteered to attack a bunker holding five machine guns 150 yards from his platoon's flank. He stripped off his pack, overshoes, helmet and overcoat, ran across open ground with his rifle and grenades, and fell mortally wounded about ten yards short. His attack forced the gunners to leave their weapons, and the platoon overran the position and took seventy prisoners. He was twenty-one. The Henry Kaserne in Munich was named for him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 1.6 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 6.5 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 8.4 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.
• Lakeport Plantation — 11 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.

More markers nearby

• Holt Collier — 0.6 mi
• Original Chinese Cemetery — 0.8 mi
• Little Italy (La Piccolo Italia) — 0.9 mi
• First Legal Liquor Store — 1.1 mi