Author: Michael

Close to 15 million Americans served in the military during World War II. But the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat bravery, was awarded just 473 times.
The first was awarded to a Navy sailor in Hawaii who fired at Japanese bombers before the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. The last went to an Army soldier for fighting in the jungle-covered mountains of Luzon in the Phillippines, less than two weeks before the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.

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