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Staff Sergeant Howard E. Woodford

Barberton, Ohio
· June 21 1921 - June 7, 1945
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Staff Sergeant Howard E. Woodford of the Third Battalion, 130th Infantry, 33rd Division, Army of the United States, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Through daring, skillful, and inspiring leadership, and with gallant determination to search out and kill the enemy, he led an inexperienced Filipino guerrilla unit in capturing and securing a vital objective and made possible the successful continuance of a vitally important general advance.
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