On this episode of Our American Stories, John Robert Fox's last recorded words, radioed from his hideout in the besieged Italian mountain village of Sommocolonia, were: "Fire it! There's more of them than there are of us. Give them hell!" Seconds later, Allied artillery rained down on both him and the advancing German troops. For his heroic actions, First Lt. Fox was posthumously awarded our nation's highest honor for valor—the Medal of Honor. But that recognition wouldn’t come until decades later. Kirk Higgins of the Bill of Rights Institute shares the story.
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