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While Dan Daly and Smedley Butler have both earned two Medals of Honor making them the only two Marines to earn two MOH in two different incidents, did you know there are five Marines who earned two Medals of Honor in a single incident? All five of these Marines earned their duel awards in World War I and received one Medal of Honor from the Marine Corps and one Medal of Honor from the Army, for the same incident. Louis
Cukela
Ernest
A. Janson
John
J. Kelly
Matej
Kocak
John
J. Pruitt
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"Pappy" Boyington received the Medal of Honor from President Truman after 20 months as a POW. 18 months earlier he had received it, for the same action, posthumously. |
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Did you know the Medal of Honor cannot be issued to anyone who is not a US citizen.
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