Myron N. "Mike" Ranney (11 November 1922-22 September 1988) was a US Army Staff Sergeant who served in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment during World War II.
Biography[]
Myron N. Ranney was born in Kensal, North Dakota on 11 November 1922, and he was a University of North Dakota student at the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for the US Army paratroopers when World War II broke out, and he became a Staff Sergeant in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment. Ranney and Terrence C. Harris were both busted to private in 1944 for starting a mutiny against Captain Herbert Sobel, and he fought in Operation Overlord, the Brecourt Manor Assault, and Operation Market Garden, and he accidentally shot himself while cleaning his pistol on 2 October 1944, leading to him being sent back to the United States. He became a journalist back home, and he died of a heart attack in 1988 at the age of 65.