Nation’s oldest Medal of Honor recipient dies at 99 Charles Coolidge passed away at the age of 99. (John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP) On April 6, the nation’s oldest Medal of Honor recipient, Charles H. Coolidge, died at the age of 99. The unassuming and quiet Coolidge passed peacefully while surrounded by family at his namesake, the Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. With the death of Coolidge, Hershel “Woody” Williams, 97, who was awarded the nation’s highest decoration for his actions on Iwo Jima, is now the Medal’s oldest surviving recipient.
Nation s oldest Medal of Honor recipient dies at 99
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Nation s oldest Medal of Honor recipient dies at 99
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By CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS, TENN. | | Published: April 7, 2021 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Tribune News Service) Charles Henry Coolidge, Sr., the country s oldest Medal of Honor recipient, died peacefully on Tuesday at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was 99. Coolidge received the nation s highest military honor for valor for his actions in the wooded mountains of France in October 1944, when he assumed command of an isolated group of 28 men, then defied the German army and two tanks for four days of continuous fighting. Coolidge was presented the Medal of Honor by Lt. Gen. Wade H. Haislip in a rare battlefield ceremony June 18, 1945, at a bombed-out airfield near Dornstadt, Germany.