Colonel Mitchell Paige U.S.M.C. was a recipient of the Medal of - TopicsExpress



          

Colonel Mitchell Paige U.S.M.C. was a recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War II. He received this, the highest military honor awarded by the United States of America, for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on October 26, 1942, where, after all of the other Marines in his platoon were killed or wounded, he operated four machine guns, singlehandedly stopping an entire Japanese regiment. Paige was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. His parents were Serb immigrants who arrived in the United States from the Military Frontier of Austria-Hungary. His family later moved to the Camden Hills neighborhood of West Mifflin. He graduated from McKeesport High School before enlisting in the US Marines.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:54:04 +0000

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