Show Receives Silver Star Stat Purple Heart Heat Promotion First Fir t Lt It Clifford Elliot of Farm Farm- entered a blazing tank and rescued re two tuo crewmen somewhere in Germany on Sept 13 13 has been heen awarded the silver star for Rattan gallan gallantry try tr according to his mother Mrs M rs ri Edna Nichols Farmington post pit- po t- t master Lt It Elliott is now nov confined in in- inan fl an anEn English En lish hospital where he is be be- being big ing treated for burns hurns dur during during ing big the rescue He lie has also bren hren awarded the purple heart and a 1 was W given a battlefield promotion l to his present rank following the heroic act The incident occurred while com corn commanding commanding manding mandinga a group of tanks in the area Lt Elliotts Elliott's tank was wa hit by byan b byan an German gun gUll and burst into flames After extricating him him- himself himself self he managed mana ed to get et out two of his crew but one of them later died from o 13 while two perished in ill the thames flames Lt LC L Elliott wrote his lik hi mother Wounds will wilt heal but hut there just isn't anything that tint ft will ill heal heat the memory mite mory of oh such things Nobody knows the agony aRoni the they see their buddies burped burned to death he lie wrote People at home just dont don't realize the suffering their hoys ho s go KO tl ou h also the suf sl sufferings fe os o's of these torn war countries said saul Lt It v The hero in private life Ilk was as one of oC Utah's Ut lh's largest grower of glad glad- gladioli Iad- Iad ioli iMi taking ta national 1 es IIII on seed seed- seedlings lings hugs in the cast in 1940 19 lie He enlist enlisted t- t ed el in iii March and trained at Fort Knox Kno Ky and antI later at Edge l wood arsenal Maryland in the chemical warfare hool h His wife Lyle Lle MacArthur Mac resides in III InSa Salt Sa It Lake I I. I City y s |