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TURNEY W. LEONARD
 

Turney W. Leonard, Class of 1942

Born June 18, 1921 • Killed in action Nov. 6, 1944

His Country’s Highest Honor and An Aggie Ring
While at Texas AMC Turney Leonard was known as a conscientious and hard-working student who earned Distinguished Student status and was inducted into the Scholarship Honor Society. Upon graduation, Leonard was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and in July 1944 found himself leading a platoon of tank destroyers as they pressed their way from Normandy towards the German border. As they reached Belgium in September of that year, Leonard’s platoon faced a relentless German attack in the grueling and bloody battle of the Huertgen Forest. Young Leonard’s heroic and selfless acts in that battle earned him posthumously his country’s highest honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Decades later the mystery of a gold ring found on that battlefield brought together former enemies in ways never imagined.
READ MORE at Texas A&M Today… | The Story of Turney Leonard’s Ring
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