Charles Andrew MacGillivary (January 17, 1917 – June 24, 2000) was a Medal of Honor recipient, born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. A Sergeant in the United States Army, he was attached to Company I, 71st Infantry, 44th Infantry Division during World War II. Pre-War Born to Cardigan Scot Roland MacGillivary and Minnie Quinn, he attended Queens Square School in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada and joined the Merchant Marine at age 16. Shortly thereafter, MacGillivary emigrated to the United States, to live with his older brother in Boston, Massachusetts. When living with his brother, he learned about the Army and considered joining it. After hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor, he decided the right thing to do was to volunteer for the U.S. Army. In January 1942, he joined the Army as a private and was assigned to the European Theatre of Operations. He told the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security 50 years later, that when he was in boot camp: an officer asked me and two other immigrants ... whether we wanted to become U.S. citizens. [They took us] to a federal courthouse and [swore us] in before a judge. I thought that if I was going to fight for this country, I should be a U.S. citizen. World War II service MacGillivary's was assigned to Company I, 71st Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division. The 44th Infantry Division landed in France via Cherbourg on 15 September 1944. It trained for a month before entering combat on 18 October 1944. The unit fought in numerous battles throughout France before reaching Wœlfling on the French-German border during the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant MacGillivary was serving as company commander on January 1, 1945 because of casualties among the officers. Ammunition was low and the company was pinned down by the 17th German Panzer Grenadier Division a Waffen-SS Panzer unit in Wœlfling, France. MacGillivary, then 27, attacked the German machine gun placements with grenades and a submachine gun. During the fight he ran out of ammo so he picked up a German machine gun, shooting the enemy at close range. He knocked out four German machine gun positions and killed 36 German soldiers. During the action a German machine gun tore off his left arm. MacGillivary told a Boston Globe reporter in 1995: The German unit he fought had taken the title Götz