A Medal of Honor recipient from Michigan will have a guided-missile destroyer named after him, the United States Navy announced on Monday 18th of March. The future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, DDG 130, will be named in honor of Hospital Corpsman Master Chief William Charette, who fell on a grenade to shield a wounded Marine during a battle in North Korea on March 27, 1953. Read full news at this link...
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| President Dwight D. Eisenhower poses with Hospital Corpsman Third Class William R. Charette (right of the picture), U.S. Navy, honored for his actions in Korea on 17 March 1953 (Picture source : US Naval History and Heritage Command) |
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