This World War II Soldier Was Decorated Like a Tree
Sandy Bonnyman led the way for other Marines during a bloody assault and earned the Medal of Honor.
Key Point: Perhaps no other individual best represented the average American male of middle America than did Alexander Bonnyman.
Four Medals of Honor were awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry during the invasion of Tarawa atoll in the Pacific during World War II. It is perhaps indicative of that four-day ordeal that three of them were awarded posthumously. The citation most covered in the press at the time, which caught the imagination of the American public, was given to the family of U.S. Marine 1st Lieutenant Alexander Bonnyman for his actions on November 22, 1943, the final day of battle.
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