Fred Faulkner Lester
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Fred Faulkner Lester
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Fred Faulkner Lester was a United States Navy hospital corpsman who was killed in action during World War II while assigned to a Marine Corps rifle company. He was posthumously awarded the nation's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for heroic actions "above and beyond the call of duty" on June 8, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. Lester was buried at Clarendon Hills Cemetery in Darien, Illinois. The destroyer escort USS Lester (DE-1022) was named in his honor, as was C
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Faulkner_Lester
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2008-01-12T01:03:59Z
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2024-09-14T09:02:14Z
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