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Jan 01, 1926 Pocatello, Idaho, United States Died on 02 Dec 1950 (aged 24)

United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient

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About James E. Johnson

  • Sergeant James Edmund Johnson (January 1, 1926–December 2, 1950) was posthumously awarded the United States' highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic lone fight on December 2, 1950, to cover the withdrawal of his platoon during the bitter Chosin Reservoir campaign in Korea.
  • When last seen by his comrades he was wounded, but still engaging the enemy in close grenade and hand-to-hand combat.
  • The enemy were wearing the uniforms of friendly troops at the time.
  • He was listed as missing in action until January 1954, when his status was officially changed to "presumed dead." Sergeant Johnson, a veteran of the Peleliu and Okinawa campaigns in World War II, was the seventh Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Korea. Although Sgt Johnson was serving with a provisional company of the 7th Marines when he earned the Medal of Honor, his regular outfit was the 11th Marines, the same regiment his father had served in during World War I.

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