NAVY SEAL, WWII SOLDIER RECEIVE MEDALS OF HONOR
Sep 04, 2018
4 minutes
This spring President Donald Trump awarded Medals of Honor to recipients separated by several decades and conflicts. First Lt. Garlin Murl Conner, an Army veteran of World War II, and Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt Slabinski, a Navy SEAL veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, are the latest combatants to receive their nation’s highest military honor.
Conner, who died in 1998 at age 79, was posthumously awarded the MOH for his actions near Houssen, France, on Jan. 24, 1945, when he volunteered to advance 30 yards ahead of his unit through a gauntlet of German fire to direct friendly artillery against a body
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