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Photo #: NH 105851

Major Henry A. Courtney, Jr., USMCR


Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy", page 169.
Henry A. Courtney, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" while serving as Executive Officer of the Second Battalion, Twenty-Second Marines, Sixth Marine Division during combat action on Okinawa during the night of 14-15 May 1945. Determined to thwart a possible Japanese counterattack on Sugar Loaf Hill, he led his men in a successful assault on enemy positions, holding the newly-captured ground until he was mortally wounded by a hostile mortar burst.

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Image Posted 16 June 2008