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John Henry Balch served as a company corpsman with 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 6th Marine Regiment, Quantico, Virginia, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions near Vierzy, France, on 19 July 1918 during World War I. While under intense machine-gun and high explosive shell fire for over 16 hours, he heroically treated wounded and fallen Marines at great personal risk. The John Henry Balch Clinic was dedicated on 21 July 2005.
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Quantico Base, Virginia · United States
