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Description:Marine Private First Class Leonard Mason of Lima, Ohio, was awarded posthumously the nation's highest award, the medal of honor, for assaulting and knocking out a Japanese machine gun single handed, though wounded several times, during the fight for Guam. His mother, Mrs. Hillary Mason, received the medal. (USMC 301940)
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