Medal of Honor winner Sgt. James T. Logan Luling, Texas, who has been described by high-ranking officers as “one of the great fighters of World War II”, will receive a second “high award” for his battle exploits.

The 23 year old rifleman will be honored a second time for leading the charge which cracked final German resistance at Velletri. Member of the battalion which wears the Presidential Citation, Sgt. Logan has fought but in two major battles. For each action his commanding officers have recommended him for the highest awards obtainable.

Assigned the ticklish mission of bottling veteran German forces which halted the Allied drive toward the Eternal City, the crack Third Battalion met head-on the final counter attack against the Americans spearheading the breakthrough.

Fighting well in advance of the battalion, Sgt. Logan is credited with piling up uncounted German dead. “I saw him burn out one BAR up there, recalled 1st Lt. Henry Biddle of Pittsburg, Pa., platoon leader. “He put up such a wall of fire the wooden stock on his gun finally blazed up. After that he crawled back and got extra rifles, grenade launchers, pistols - anything the boys could find for him. He fired it all.”

Jim Logan, long considered the best rifle shot in his company, doesn’t talk much about his battle experiences unless it is to give credit to the men who fight with him.

No one knows how many enemy dead Sgt. Logan accounted for, nor will anyone even approximate the amount of ammunition expended, but the Germans never got through him to the Third Battalion's center.

Swinging their attack around in an effort to pierce the Third's left flank, the Nazi paratroopers again ran into fire of the sergeant from Luling.

Outwitting the attackers by a matter of minutes, Logan managed to pull his own men around to the left flank in time to meet the second frenzied counter attack point blank.

"That was when Jim Logan really gave it to them," added Lt. Biddle. "He'd found another BAR and he charged into the German lines firing from the hip and waving for his men to follow. Actually he walked right into "Rat-guns" and practically — rammed his gun down the Jerry's throats. I saw him fire grenades from his rifle at running targets and knock out four or five Germans at a time!

Receiving the full brunt of the attack, Logan and his men finally stopped the seasoned paratroopers in their tracks — and the march on Rome begun.

Logan has but one battle philosophy, "You can lay there and sweat 'em out and they'll keep pouring it in but if you throw it back at 'em they'll think twice before they come in after you."

"He burns out a lot of guns a'doing it," one of his buddies commented. "But the Germans won't stand up to him — he always has to go after them."

For action on the Salerno beachhead, Logan is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. It hasn't been decided yet what he will receive for blasting a hole in the German defense line at Velletri, but they are reasonably sure it will be "a very high battle decoration".