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I tell myself, it's not about comparing. But then I start wondering, what can they lift? Are they adding more weight to their barbell than I am? And suddenly, I'm not training. Then I realize my journey is not theirs.
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And we return to our American stories. Up next, A story on one of the seven African Americans to receive our nation's highest award for valor in World War II. The Congressional Medal of Honor. Here to tell the story of Lieutenant John Robert Fox is Kirk Higgins. The Senior Director of Content.
at the Bill of Rights Institute. Let's get into the story. Take it away, Kirk. It was the day after Christmas, 1944, and the pitched battles of World War II were still raging. The Germans would not surrender to Allied forces for another five months.
And in Italy, the fighting remained fierce. A U.S. Army lieutenant from an all-black regiment was perched on the second floor of a house in the village of Sumo Colonia. German forces were overrunning the village, but the brave lieutenant volunteered to stay behind and direct artillery fire from his second-story location. Allied forces bombarded the Germans with the lieutenant's help.
but the German forces continued to advance. Finally, his enemy soldiers closed in on his position. Lieutenant John Robert Fox made a fateful call. Fire it. There's more of them than there are of us.
Give them health. He radioed in an artillery strike on his own position. knowing it may cost him his life. John Robert Fox was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1915, the oldest of three sons. He had a keen interest in science and began his college studies at The Ohio State University.
But he transferred to Wilberforce University, a historically black college, because it was one of the few schools that would allow black students to participate in an ROTC program. Fox graduated with a degree in engineering and in 1941 received a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Just months later, America would be drawn into World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fox was assigned to the all-black 366th Infantry at Fort Devons in Massachusetts for artillery training.
In 1942 and 1943, Fox and his unit were stationed at various locations in New England, guarding against possible sabotage from the Germans. Fox was far from the fighting at that time. but it would last. In March 1944, Fox and the 366th Infantry were ordered overseas, first to Morocco and Algeria, and then to support the fighting in Italy. It was during this Italian campaign that Fox would become part of American history.
By 1944, several major fronts had been opened in the European theater. On June 6th, Operation Overlord had successfully landed hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers on the shores of Normandy, France. and the Soviet Union was relentlessly attacking from the east, pushing the Germans back. But another less well known campaign was being waged on the Italian peninsula. Operations in Italy had begun with the invasion of Sicily in July of 1943.
Three. By December 1944, Allied forces had advanced well into Northern Middle. There, the exhausted Allied troops were holding their positions and preparing to attack when better weather arrived in the spring. Unfortunately, German forces have no idea yes. On Christmas night of 1944, Lieutenant John Robert Fox found himself in the village of Summo Colonia.
The village was on top of a rocky outcropping, which gave a commanding view of the surrounding countryside.
Somo Colonia is a small village, but strategically it was very important. It was part of a massive defensive network that had been built by the Germans, known as the Gothic Line. The Gothic line featured 2,000 fortified positions and machine gun emplacements and stretched the width of northern Italy. Italy. It was the final major obstacle standing between the Allies and a push into the southern German frontier.
Fox's battalion, about 1,000 men strong, had been ordered to hold the Germans along a thirty mile section in front. This meant they were stretched precariously thin, and the Germans sensed an opportunity to attack. Uh Fox had taken a position in a house with a good view of the surrounding countryside, from which he could radio coordinates for defensive artillery fire. He went to sleep that Christmas night. cold, but confident in his position.
But when he awoke on December 26, 1944, the situation had changed completely. During the evening. Germans dressed in civilian clothing had infiltrated and taken significant portions of the town. In the early morning hours, they launched an artillery barrage. The Allied forces were caught off guard.
It knew the situation was untenable. They began to retreat. but not Lieutenant John Robert Fox. Fox, from his position in the second story of a village house, got the best view of the advancing Germans. He knew that if he stayed behind, he could call in defensive artillery fire.
It may be, but some luck. The Allies would delay the Germans, regroup, and repel the attack. As the Germans advanced, Fox began to call down devastating and accurate barrages of artillery. The German forces were slowed. but not stopped.
As they continued to advance, Fox called in artillery strikes closer and closer to this two-story house where he was hold up. That was just where I wanted it. Fox told his battalion commander. You're after one artillery strike. Bring it in 50 yards.
Finally, with the Germans nearly on top of him. John Robert Fox made a fateful and courageous decision. He called in an artillery strike on his own position. ending the transmission by encouraging Allied forces to give them help. The guns fired with deadly accuracy, killing both enemy troops and Fox himself.
Fox's heroism helped stall the German advance and allowed more American troops and Italian civilians to retreat to safety. A week later, American troops retook Semo Colonia. When they did, they found Fox's body. Among those of more than one hundred enemy soldiers. Lieutenant John Robert Fox had died a hero.
but the journey to recognize him for his heroism was long and difficult. It would last more than fifty years. In 1945, Fox was recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award given by the United States. States Army. But he did not receive the award.
Not for a very long time. time. And unfortunately, Fox's situation was common. For decades, black soldiers were denied awards and recognition they had rightfully earned on the battlefields. In fact, no black soldiers were initially awarded the Medal of Honor after World War II.
In 1982, 38 years after his historic sacrifice, John Robert Fox began to receive his long-overdue recognition. That year, he was finally posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Then, in the early 1990s, the U.S. Department of Defense began to study whether black soldiers had been unfairly denied the Medal of Honor, America's highest military honor. Seven black soldiers were ultimately recommended for the award.
including John Robert Fox. On January 13, 1997, President Bill Clinton presented the Medal of Honor to Fox's widow, Arlene Fox. Fox's Medal of Honor citation reads. First Lieutenant John R. Fox distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism at the risk of his own life on 26 December, 1944.
Lieutenant Fox's extraordinarily valorous actions exemplify the highest traditions of the military service. More than fifty years after his death, Fox's story was being fully told, and he received the recognition he had longed to. Observed. Today, a white stone marker sits in the village of Somo Colonia, Italy, marking the place where Lieutenant John Robert Fox sacrificed his life. calling in an artillery strike on his own position to halt a German advance.
Yeah. It is a lasting testament to the courage and selflessness of a man who knowingly put himself at great risk. and ultimately gave his life to save others. Yeah. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery.
And a special thanks to Kirk Higgins for telling this story and to the Bill of Rights Institute. To find out more about the great work they do and to check out their wonderful curriculum for students. Go to mybri.org. That's mybri.org. And what a story we were told.
Lieutenant John Robert Fox. ordering a strike on his own location. For the benefit of the Allied Command. The story of Lieutenant John Robert Fox here. On our American stories.
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