John R. Fox
id:
john-r-fox-235-18280974
title:
John R. Fox
text:
John Robert Fox was a United States Army first lieutenant who was killed in action after calling in artillery fire on the enemy during World War II. In 1997, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for his actions on December 26, 1944, in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, Italy. It is believed that he called in his own coordinates because he was in an area overrun with German soldiers. Fox and six other African Americans who served in World
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
US Army Medal of Honor recipient (1915–1944)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Fox
date created:
date modified:
2024-02-14T18:21:17Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q6253841","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6253841"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/JohnRFox.jpg","width":197,"height":260}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15