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Douglas Albert Munro
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Douglas Albert Munro
Douglas Albert Munro
(October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942) is the only member of the
United States Coast Guard
to have received the
Medal of Honor
, the United States's highest
military award
. Munro received the decoration posthumously for his actions as officer-in-charge of a group of landing craft on September 27, 1942, during the
September Matanikau action
in the
Guadalcanal campaign
of
World War II
.
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