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Photo #: NH 103788

Private First Class William R. Caddy, USMCR


Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy", page 165.
William R. Caddy received the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" on 3 March 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, when he sacrificed his own life by diving on a grenade to protect other men of his platoon.

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Image posted 22 May 2006