Mike Turko

Pfc Mike Turko was killed in action on 20 June 1944, serving with Anti-Tank Company, 175th Infantry Regiment. On 20 June 1944, the 175th Infantry Regiment was holding the Hill 108 salient, a forward position roughly three miles from St. Lô, against repeated German efforts to retake the ground. The regiment turned back one major counter-attack along with several smaller probing assaults during this period, with battalions rotating through the exposed forward line to relieve one another under pressure. The surviving after-action report does not spell out the exact rotation schedule for each unit during these days, so it is not possible to state precisely which battalion held the line on this specific date. Pfc Turko was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.