Gerald Mulholland Gets Bronze Star for Brave Action
Lt. Gerald N. Mulholland, son of William L. Mulholland of Los Angeles, formerly of Sioux City, has been awarded a bronze star infantry medal “for heroic achievement in connection with military operation against the enemy in the vicinity of Pozzorubio, Luzon, P.I., January 25, 1945.”
A citation from Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing commended Lt. Mulholland as follows: “I want you to know that I deem it an honor to have served in the same command with your son, who typifies the finest in the American army, a brave and gallant soldier.”
Lt. Mulholland led his party through an open rice paddy, laying wire to the base of a hill, known to be an enemy defense position where the original observer had been lost and his telephone line severed by enemy fire. The action was under hostile machine gun and sniper fire. Communication was restored and Lt. Mulholland directed effective mortar fire, as a result of which Japanese fire was neutralized and a rife company was able to secure and consolidated positions on the enemy hill, according to the official notification.
Lt. Mulholland is a nephew of Sister Mary Bernadette, in charge of the out-patient department of St. Joseph’s hospital. He was about 16 when he left Sioux City to live in Los Angeles. His father was in the sporting business here for years and now is with the May Company in Los Angeles.
Lt. Mulholland is a graduate of Central High School; attended Trinity College and entered military service March 3, 1941. He was commissioned at Fort Benning, G., in June, 1943. He has served over-seas with the 43d division for the past 21 months and took part in the New Guinea and Luzon campaigns. He is with occupation troops in Japan at Present.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, September 30, 1945 (photo included)
