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Landing at
Normandy on D-Day Private Barrett, landing in the face of
extremely heavy enemy fire, was forced to wade ashore through
neck-deep water. Disregarding the personal danger, he returned
to the surf again and again to assist his floundering comrades
and save them from drowning. Refusing to remain pinned down by
the intense barrage of small-arms and mortar fire poured at the
landing points, Private Barrett, working with fierce
determination, saved many lives by carrying casualties to an
evacuation boat lying offshore. In addition to his assigned
mission as guide, he carried dispatches the length of the
fire-swept beach; he assisted the wounded; he calmed the
shocked; he arose as a leader in the stress of the occasion.
