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Rank: Staff Sergeant
Service: Army
Unit: Company B, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
Birthdate: December 14, 1922
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Date of Death: January 4, 1945
Battle or Place of Action: Flamierge, Belgium
Date of Action: January 4, 1945
Citation: His company was pinned down by enemy artillery, mortar, and small arms fire. Then 2 hostile tanks attacked the unit, inflicting heavy casualties. Seeing the desperate plight of his comrades, Jachman left his place of cover and dashed across open ground through a hail of fire. Seizing a bazooka from a fallen comrade, he advanced on the tanks, which then concentrated their fire on him. Firing the weapon alone, he damaged one tank and forced both to retire. Jachman's heroic action, in which he suffered fatal wounds, disrupted the entire enemy attack, reflecting the highest credit upon himself and the parachute infantry.
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