Dear: Technical Sergeant Coolidge,

Hi! my name is Garcia Victoria. I am 16yrs old and I attend to Farragut H.S. in JROCT. You are a very strong man because you took charge of a compamy and for encouraging your own people to never give up and it was all on you. Also for fighting for 4 days in the woods.
One of the benefits of you is that you would stand for your country, and risking your life for your people. Also you care to protect your people and try to save them. These are just some of the benefits of you and the country, but theres a lot more great things you did.
As you fought for 4 straight days in a cold and shivering days, I could just imagine how you could be really brave and not givign up for yourself, I would't even make it there. But you should always wake up in the mornings thinking and feeling really proud that you have done an exellent work!!
I wish you the best on everything but especially to enjoy the rest of your life peacefully and proudly because you deserve it... Thank you once more and take care!!


Sincerely: Garcia,Victoria

Name:Charles H. Coolidge
Place of birth:Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Allegiance:United States of America.
Service/branch:United States Army.
Rank:technical Sergeant
Battles wars:World war II
Awards: Medal of Honor.


Leading a section of heavy machineguns supported by 1 platoon of Company K, he took a position near Hill 623, east of Belmont sur Buttant, France, on October 24, 1944, with the mission of covering the right flank of the 3d Battalion and supporting its action. T/Sgt. Coolidge went forward with a Sergeant of Company K to reconnoiter positions for coordinating the fires of the light and heavy machineguns. They ran into an enemy force in the woods estimated to be an infantry company. T/Sgt. Coolidge, attempting to bluff the Germans by a show of assurance and boldness called upon them to surrender, whereupon the enemy opened fire. With his carbine, T/Sgt. Coolidge wounded 2 of them. There being no officer present with the force, T/Sgt. Coolidge at once assumed command. Many of the men were replacements recently arrived; this was their first experience under fire. T/Sgt. Coolidge, unmindful of the enemy fire delivered at close range, walked along the position, calming and encouraging his men and directing their fire. The attack was thrown back. Through 25 and October 26, the enemy launched repeated attacks against the position of this combat group but each was repulsed due to T/Sgt. Coolidge's able leadership. On October 27, German infantry, supported by 2 tanks, made a determined attack on the position. The area was swept by enemy small arms, machinegun, and tank fire. T/Sgt. Coolidge armed himself with a bazooka and advanced to within 25 yards of the tanks. His bazooka failed to function and he threw it aside. Securing all the hand grenades he could carry, he crawled forward and inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing enemy. Finally it became apparent that the enemy, in greatly superior force, supported by tanks, would overrun the position. T/Sgt. Coolidge, displaying great coolness and courage, directed and conducted an orderly withdrawal, being himself the last to leave the position. As a result of T/Sgt. Coolidge's heroic and superior leadership, the mission of this combat group was accomplished throughout 4 days of continuous fighting against numerically superior enemy troops in rain and cold and amid dense woods.