Donald Eugene Rudolph, Sr. (c. 1921 - May 25 2006) was an American soldier who won his country's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, in the Second World War. He was awarded the medal whilst serving as a sergeant and acting as leader of his platoon on Luzon island in the northern Philippines; his actions took place on 5 February 1945. Whilst giving first aid on the battlefield he noticed that his unit was pinned down by gun fire from a ditch. Wikipedia
Donald E. Rudolph Sr., 85, an Army technical sergeant during World War II whose one-man charge against eight Japanese pillboxes in the Philippines earned him the Medal of Honor, died May 25 at Evergreen Terrace nursing home in Grand Rapids, Minn. He had A www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/28/...
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