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Photo #: NH 106421

Ensign John J. Parle, USNR


He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "valor and courage above and beyond the call of duty" while serving as Officer-in-Charge of USS LST-375 during the amphibious assault on the island of Sicily on 9-10 July 1943.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

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    Image Posted 4 February 2009