General Clarence Huebner

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This is just a portion of the the completed medal group to General Huebener. Group consists of all his medals with all original paperwork, matching campaign numbers, and several named medals. obtained directly from the family. Complete medal group photographed in original frame. Due to the need to conserve and protect the group medals have been removed from the frame. Frame has been retained. 

Operation Tigar was a planned series of large scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion which took place in April of 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. While tiger was a needed exercise the operation was plagued with problems of both friendly and enemy fire that resulted in over 749 American soldiers deaths

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While on the beech Sgt. Barnett Hoffner stated  “I was on the beech with my squad, we were practicing taking up mines when we saw bodies come floating in. I had never seen a dead man before. We started down to the water’s edge to get the bodies when I heard a voice yell ‘Sergent get your men out of there!’ I looked up and saw two stars on the shoulder and recognized that it was General Clarence Huebner (commanding general 1st Infantry Division) I got my squad out of there fast. You don’t question anything a general says” 

General Huebner understood that the point of Operation Tigar was to train his men to be prepared for what he knew was coming during the D-Day invasions.  While the loss of life during the exercise was tragic, so many more lives could be lost if the men General Hubner trained did not preform their duties.

While in command of the 1st Infantry Division General Huebner’s troops not only succeeded on Omaha Beech during the D-Day invasion but went on to execute a critical part in the capture of Aachen the first German City of consequence.