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- Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. (July 14, 1915 – September 19, 2001) was a highly decorated United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne Division who in June 1944, as commander of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, parachuted behind enemy lines into Normandy and was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for leading an attack that captured the French town of Prétot-Sainte-Suzanne, in the Manche (Basse-Normandie) department. On June 6, 2002, the people of the village honored his memory by renaming Prétot's main square "La Place du Colonel Mendez". (en)
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- 3rd Battalion,508th Parachute Infantry Regiment,82nd Airborne Division
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- Trinidad, Colorado, U.S. (en)
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- Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. (en)
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- Falls Church, Virginia, U.S. (en)
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- Infantry instructor at Fort Benning, Georgia (en)
- Military attaché in Spain (en)
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- Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. (en)
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- Bronze Star ribbon.svg (en)
- American Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg (en)
- National Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg (en)
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- United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg (en)
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- Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. (July 14, 1915 – September 19, 2001) was a highly decorated United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne Division who in June 1944, as commander of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, parachuted behind enemy lines into Normandy and was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for leading an attack that captured the French town of Prétot-Sainte-Suzanne, in the Manche (Basse-Normandie) department. On June 6, 2002, the people of the village honored his memory by renaming Prétot's main square "La Place du Colonel Mendez". (en)
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- Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. (en)
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