5 April 1944
On this date in 1944...
Creek Indian soldier Ernest Childers of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during WWII for his courageous actions on September 22, 1943 near Oliveto, Italy while serving as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 45th Infantry Division. Childers single-handedly killed two enemy snipers, attacked two machine gun nests, and captured an artillery observer that had been directing fire against his unit.
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