 Early in the morning of 18 April 1945 , he led his company through the shell @-@ battered , sniper @-@ infested wreckage of Nuremberg , Germany . When blistering machinegun fire caught his unit in an exposed position , he ordered his men to take cover , dashed forward alone , and , as bullets whined about him , shot the 3 @-@ man guncrew with his carbine . Continuing the advance at the head of his company , he located an enemy patrol armed with rocket launchers which threatened friendly armor . He again went forward alone , secured a vantage point and opened fire on the Germans . Immediately he became the target for concentrated machine pistol and rocket fire , which blasted the rubble about him . Calmly , he continued to shoot at the patrol until he had killed all 6 enemy infantrymen . Continuing boldly far in front of his company , he entered a park , where as his men advanced , a German machinegun opened up on them without warning . With his carbine , he killed the gunner ; and then , from a completely exposed position , he directed machinegun fire on the remainder of the crew until all were dead . In a final duel , he wiped out a third machinegun emplacement with rifle fire at a range of 10 yards . By fearlessly engaging in 4 single @-@ handed fire fights with a desperate , powerfully armed enemy , Lt. DALY , voluntarily taking all major risks himself and protecting his men at every opportunity , killed 15 Germans , silenced 3 enemy machineguns and wiped out an entire enemy patrol . His heroism during the lone bitter struggle with fanatical enemy forces was an inspiration to the valiant Americans who took Nuremberg . 
