As to Michael Gainey, he received nothing more than a Purple Heart Medal, despite all the enemy troops he shot on 'Death Night'. He recuperated from the grenade blast and rejoined his company late in 1944. While sleeping in a halftrack under blankets in the Battle of the Bulge, a German mortar shell exploded right inside the vehicle, blowing Gainey out onto the road. He was running down the road, covered with blood and screaming, when his buddies tackled him and sent him for aid. He received 'shock therapy' at US Government hospitals and his health declined. He died in the mid-1950s, as a result of his war wounds.
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