[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    RECOGNIZING SERGEANT DAN McBRIDE

  (Ms. HERRELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HERRELL. Madam Speaker, in 1942, Dan McBride enlisted as a 
paratrooper in the U.S. Army. Sergeant Dan McBride is an American hero 
from New Mexico.
  Assigned to Fox Company, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st 
Airborne, Dan's job was a new modernization in military tactics. 
Paratroopers jumped out of perfectly good airplanes to parachute behind 
enemy lines.
  On June 6, 1944, Dan jumped into Normandy on D-day as part of 
Operation Overlord. There he earned his first Purple Heart.
  On September 17, 1944, Dan jumped into Holland as part of Operation 
Market Garden. There he earned his second Purple Heart.
  In December of 1944, Dan and the 101st Airborne made their way to 
Bastogne, Belgium, where they held off a desperate push by the Germans 
in temperatures well below zero, with no winter clothes. The Battle of 
the Bulge is where Dan earned his third Purple Heart.
  His actions did not go overlooked. Amongst the multitude of medals he 
was awarded, Dan and his fellow paratroopers, Dick Kline and James 
Martin, were featured in the book ``Three of the Last Screaming 
Eagles.''
  That book has now been made into a documentary film called ``A 
Rendezvous with Destiny,'' which premieres on May 29 in Columbus, Ohio, 
at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum.
  We owe so much to our World War II veterans, of whom we have fewer 
every day. I am so proud of Sergeant McBride. I can't think of a better 
way to honor his legacy than by immortalizing his story on film.

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