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Medal of Honor Recipient

Isadore Seigfreid Jachman

U.S. Army · World War II

MOH-RC-000153Source-based record

The award

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Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1950

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Medal of Honor

1945-01-04

Flamierge, Belgium

Rank at action
Staff Sergeant
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War II
Unit or command
Company B, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
Presentation date
June 9, 1950

The Citation

Sources ↓
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty at Flamierge, Belgium, on 4 January 1945, when his company was pinned down by enemy artillery, mortar, and small arms fire, 2 hostile tanks attacked the unit, inflicting heavy. casualties. S/Sgt. Jachman, seeing the desperate plight of his comrades, left his place of cover and with total disregard for his own safety dashed across open ground through a hail of fire and seizing a bazooka from a fallen comrade advanced on the tanks, which concentrated their fire on him. Firing the weapon alone, he damaged one and forced both to retire. S/Sgt. Jachman's heroic action, in which he suffered fatal wounds, disrupted the entire enemy attack, reflecting the highest credit upon himself and the parachute infantry.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Isadore Seigfreid Jachman — current recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-25

    current identity, service, rank, unit, action metadata, and recipient-profile citation match

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000156
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-25
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
25
Entered service at
Baltimore, Md.
Archive transcription SHA-256
97bb0aaa9c77aab8f00e361580d554bebe88cdb03791d1da870548b0b9196d4d

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current profile removes modern postal-geocoder wording and adds the 17th Airborne Division. Legacy full citation text and row provenance retained; General Order comparison remains pending.