Not all of Company B got through unharmed. That day, the only other member of the company to win the coveted Medal of Honor besides Murphy, Sgt. Sylvester Antolak, singlehandedly silenced several German machine-gun posts so that his platoon could get across the tracks. He was not so lucky as his fellow platoon leader. As he silenced the last of the enemy machine guns, he was riddled with German bullets, and not knowing he would win America’s highest decoration, died and lies forgotten these forty years or more.
