Douglas Albert Munro
Military Person
1919 – 1942
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Who was Douglas Albert Munro?
Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the United States Coast Guard to have received the Medal of Honor, the United States's highest military award. Munro received the decoration posthumously for his actions as officer-in-charge of a group of landing craft on September 27, 1942, during the September Matanikau action in the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II.
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- Born
- Oct 11, 1919
Vancouver - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Central Washington University
- Died
- Sep 27, 1942
Guadalcanal
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on July 23, 2013
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