US Navy HA1c Robert Bush: Medal of Honor Recipient WWII

At just 18 years old, Navy Hospital Apprentice First Class Robert Bush displayed extraordinary courage during the Battle of Okinawa. While under relentless enemy fire, he tended to a wounded Marine officer, all while fending off attacking Japanese soldiers with his sidearm and a discarded rifle. Gravely wounded himself—including the loss of an eye—Bush refused to be evacuated until his platoon commander was safe. For his heroic actions, he became the youngest sailor to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II.

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📚 Sources:
https://www.historylink.org/File/10936
https://blog.togetherweserved.com/navy-corpsman-robert-e-bush-1944-1945/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-11-me-bush11-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eugene_Bush

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