Maj. Gen. George Mabry Jr.; Medal of Honor Winner in WWII

Army Maj. Gen. George Mabry Jr., 72, who won the Medal of Honor for his service in Germany in World War II, and who later commanded U.S. forces in the Panama Canal Zone. Mabry, retired since 1975, landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day on June 6, 1944, as a captain. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions later during an attack in Germany’s Huertgen Forest. Mabry, who had by then been promoted to major, captured three bunkers, cleared a mine field path, killed three German soldiers and captured nine others, relatives said. Mabry served 10 years in the Canal Zone in Panama, four as commanding general. In Columbia, S.C., on July 13 of cancer.