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A new update for a new year! having gone through the alphabet from A to Z naming updates after generals, for the next updates we’ll look at heroes of WW2, and instead of just sitting around here in HQ picking someone, we decided that YOU the players, the HEROES of the game should have a word.

So over Christmas we have had a thread running in our forum for suggestions and a name that kept popping up was >US S/Sgt. LUCIAN ADAMS.

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He was suggested by a number of players and seconded by even more. The players that suggested Adams was Chamberpot_pie45, Pryvate_Jackson, DisasterMan25 & Kilowolf – so thank you for that and check your forum PM.

So the next update will be named

ADAMS – Ground Fire

Tune in today at 1500CET to our weekly Devstream on Twitch.tv at www.twitch.tv/heroesandgenerals – for the first sneak peaks of what this new update will bring!

Do you want to know WHY S/Sgt. Lucian Adams was awarded the Medal of Honor?



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Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, 30th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division

Place and date: Near St. Die, France, 28 October 1944

Entered service at: Port Arthur, Tex



Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 28 October 1944, near St. Die, France. When his company was stopped in its effort to drive through the Mortagne Forest to reopen the supply line to the isolated third battalion, S/Sgt. Adams braved the concentrated fire of machineguns in a lone assault on a force of German troops. Although his company had progressed less than 10 yards and had lost 3 killed and 6 wounded, S/Sgt. Adams charged forward dodging from tree to tree firing a borrowed BAR from the hip. Despite intense machinegun fire which the enemy directed at him and rifle grenades which struck the trees over his head showering him with broken twigs and branches, S/Sgt. Adams made his way to within 10 yards of the closest machinegun and killed the gunner with a hand grenade. An enemy soldier threw hand grenades at him from a position only 10 yards distant; however, S/Sgt. Adams dispatched him with a single burst of BAR fire. Charging into the vortex of the enemy fire, he killed another machinegunner at 15 yards range with a hand grenade and forced the surrender of 2 supporting infantrymen. Although the remainder of the German group concentrated the full force of its automatic weapons fire in a desperate effort to knock him out, he proceeded through the woods to find and exterminate 5 more of the enemy. Finally, when the third German machinegun opened up on him at a range of 20 yards, S/Sgt. Adams killed the gunner with BAR fire. In the course of the action, he personally killed 9 Germans, eliminated 3 enemy machineguns, vanquished a specialized force which was armed with automatic weapons and grenade launchers, cleared the woods of hostile elements, and reopened the severed supply lines to the assault companies of his battalion.

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If you want to see some of the other suggestions, and read other stories of heroism, check out the links in this forum thread! – there are some really great stories there!