Jack Williams (Medal of Honor)

Pharmacist's Mate Third Class, U.S. Navy

World War IIBattle of Iwo Jima †

Awards & Decorations

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Biography

Jack Williams was a United States Navy hospital corpsman who was killed in action while serving with a Marine Corps infantry unit in World War II. He was posthumously awarded the nation's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for heroic actions "above and beyond the call of duty" on March 3, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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Medal of Honor(base 100)

+100

Heroic Score100 pts