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Marine Corps Platoon Sgt. Joseph R. Julian

Marine Corps Platoon Sgt. Joseph R. Julian received the Medal of Honor posthumously for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life on March 9, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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