Memorial

More information

Pfc Uno V. Tervo enlisted in San Francisco, California on 1 December 1942 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

Riccardi traversed the gun around to the side of the tank so that he wouldn't have to waste any time in getting the enemy in his sights. Sgt Bartus told the driver, T/4 Frank Nicholls, to move on to the street, while Pfc Uno Tervo, the loader, put a shell in the chamber. The tank got about one-fourth of its length past the house onto the street, when a German tank, evidently just sitting and waiting, opened up. The first shell hit a house on the right. Another quickly followed, hitting the tank. It immediately burst into flames. Then T/4 Nicholls was seen jumping over the side, badly burned. Riccardi jumped over the front end of the tank, and a German machine gun opened up on him. Nicholls had wriggled his way through Bartus and Tervo, both of whom never managed to get out of the assault gun as the German tank fired two more rounds into it.