Army & Navy - INFANTRY: Credit for Doughboy

"The valor in an infantryman's heart, which causes him to go out to 'inevitable death' to save the lives of his fellows and to enable his company to advance against seemingly impossible odds, is the valor which cannot be taught to a man. He has it or he doesn't — Private Minue had it."

With this citation the Congressional Medal of Honor went posthumously last week to Private Nicholas Minue, 44-year-old World War I veteran who was killed last year in Tunisia — but only after he had bayoneted ten German machine gunners,...

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