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Photo #: NH 106146

Private First Class Harold Gonsalves, USMCR


Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy", page 193.
Harold Gonsalves was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" while serving as an Acting Scout Sergeant with the Fourth Battalion, Fifteenth Marines, Sixth Marine Division in action against the Japanese on Okinawa Shima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, 15 April 1945.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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    Image Posted 29 September 2008
    Edited and reposted 16 February 2010