Date of birth:

December 2nd, 1916

Date of death:

December 4th, 1944 (the Netherlands)

Service number:

6 386 376

Nationality:

American (1776 - present, Republic)

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

1st Sergeant

Unit:

Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division "Hell On Wheels", U.S. Army

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

1st Sergeant

Unit:

Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division "Hell On Wheels", U.S. Army

This award was obtained in the form of an Oak Leave to be attached on the ribbon of the first award.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded in the form of a second oak leaf cluster to be worn on the ribbon of the first BSM.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

1st Sergeant

Unit:

Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division "Hell On Wheels", U.S. Army

1st Sergeant Pelah Gilley rescued a small Dutch boy from beneath a falling wall on 9 November 1944. 1st Sergeant Pelah Gilley was fatally injured and died in an Army hospital.


Awarded posthumously.

• Photo 1: Family
• - Blaker, G.A., Iron Knights – The United States 66th Armored Regiment, Burd Street Press, Shippensburg, USA, 1999
  - usgwarchives.net
  - Pelah Gilley/Find a Grave
  - Dale County AlArchives Military Records.....Gilley, Pelah February 1945