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Mar 25, 1931 Gray, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 14 Jun 1952 (aged 21)
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
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About Clifton T. Speicher
- Clifton T.
- Speicher (March 25, 1931 – June 14, 1952) was a United States Army soldier in the Korean War who posthumously received the U.S.
- military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Born on March 25, 1931, in Gray, Pennsylvania, Speicher joined the Army from that city in 1951.
- By June 14, 1952, he was serving in Korea as a corporal in Company F of the 223rd Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division.
- On that day, during an attack against a hostile position near Minarigol, his squad came under intense small-arms, mortar, and machine gun fire.
- Although wounded, Speicher charged the machine gun nest and killed the occupants with his rifle and bayonet.
- He was wounded again during his approach and died shortly after silencing the emplacement.
- For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor a year later, on August 19, 1953.Aged 21 at his death, Speicher was buried at Beam German Reformed Church Cemetery in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania.
