The heroic death of Francis Xavier McGraw of Philadelphia he must be remember.

Pennsylvania, a Private First Class in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on November 19, 1944, near Schevenhutte, Germany.

McGraw joined the Army from Camden, New Jersey, and by November 19, 1944, was serving as a private first class in Company H, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.

At that time, the 26th Regiment was fighting in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest, a grueling dense forest offensive near the German-Belgian border.

During a German counterattack on November 19, 1944, he manned his machine gun despite intense enemy fire and left cover to retrieve more ammunition.

Although wounded, he continued to fire his machine gun until again running out of ammunition. He then engaged the German troops with a carbine but was subsequently killed.

He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 19, 1944. McGraw is buried at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. The McGraw Kaserne in Munich has been named after him.

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