
Mike Dixon (1911-20 August 1944) was a US Army Corporal and later a US Army Sergeant during World War II.
Biography[]
Mike Dixon was born in San Diego, California in 1911. On 19 July 1944, Mike Dixon at the rank of Corporal was assigned to the US Army's 29th Infantry Division under the command of Sergeant Frank McCullin. Among the members of his squad were Private Leroy Huxley, Private First Class Salvatore Guzzo, Medic John Sandler, and Private Joseph Nichols. On 19 July 1944, Dixon and his squad were ordered into the Battle of Saint Lo in Normandy, France against the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht. In the battle, Dixon and Leroy Huxley fought through the German defenses with support from the US 3rd Armored Division's M4A3 Sherman Tanks. The squad then liberated Saint Lo after a German counterattack.
On 26 July 1944, Dixon and his squad fought the German Luftwaffe paratrooper divisions at Saint Germain, by this time, Dixon and his squad were embedded in the US 90th Infantry Division. On 4 August 1944, Dixon and his squad fought the Wehrmacht for the Mayenne Bridge, McCullin was killed by an explosion while disarming German aircraft bombs and Dixon was then promoted to a Sergeant and assumed command of the squad.
Dixon and his squad then cleared the forest at Foret d'Ecouves on 11 August 1944 of the German forces. On 19 August 1944, Sergeant Dixon and his squad secured the crossroads to Chambois. On 20 August 1944, Dixon was killed by a Waffen-SS sniper during the Battle of Chambois, Private Salvatore Guzzo then took command of the squad and the US forces later defeated the Wehrmacht at the Battle of Chambois, later liberating Paris alongside the Free French Forces.