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This Grantsville (Calhoun County) native, while serving as a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army 142nd Infantry, 36th Infantry Division, singlehandedly captured a a schoolhouse filled with 26 German troops at Mittelwihr, France, on 18 December 1944. Over the next several days, his eight-man squad held the schoolhouse, repelling numerous German attacks, driving back approximately 150, killing at least 87, and capturing 42. He personally killed more than 20 and captured 33 prisoners.
For more information, see the e-WV entry on Bernard P. Bell.
