Corporal Duane E. Dewey - Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Memorial to Medal of Honor recipient Corporal Duane E. Dewey.
Waymark Code: WM1118W
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2019
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Located in the Kanapaha Veteran's Memorial Park in Gainesville, Florida is a Medal of Honor Memorial for U.S. Marine Corps Reserves Corporal Duane E. Dewey.
Duane Edgar Dewey (born November 16, 1931) is an American former combat Marine. He received the U.S. military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions on April 16, 1952 during the Korean War. Although wounded by an enemy grenade, he smothered another exploding grenade with his own body to save the life of a corpsman and the other Marines around him.
After treatment of his wounds in Korea, Dewey was evacuated to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan, and then to the U.S. Naval Hospitals at Mare Island, California, and Great Lakes, Illinois. Following his recuperation at Great Lakes, he was released from active duty on August 19, 1952.
On March 12, 1953, Dewey was the first person to receive the Medal of Honor from President Dwight D. Eisenhower. After presenting the medal to Dewey during the ceremony at the White House, Eisenhower said to him, "You must have a body of steel."
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