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    Valor Last Full Measure

    Sep 03, 2019 2 minutes
    By Dave Kindy

    First Lt. John R. Fox

    U.S. Army

    Medal of Honor

    Italy

    Dec. 26, 1944

    On Christmas Day 1944 the U.S. Army’s segregated 92nd Infantry Division—the celebrated “Buffalo Soldiers”—held a tenuous position in Sommocolonia, a village along central Italy’s Serchio River. The Fifth Army had called off a general assault the day before, but this unit remained

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