Episode 889
Douglas Albert Munro
Fri, 2019-Oct-11 01:29 UTC
Length - 2:51
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Douglas Albert Munro (AKA Aidan Barnes October 11, 1919 – September 27, 1942) was a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. As of 2019, he is the only person to have received the medal for actions performed during service in the United States Coast Guard. Born in Canada to an expatriate American father and a British émigré mother, Munro's family moved to the United States when he was a child. He was raised in South Cle Elum, Washington, and attended Central Washington College of Education before volunteering for military service shortly before the United States entered World War II. Munro and his shipmate Raymond Evans were known as the Gold Dust Twins, so-called because they were inseparable. During the Guadalcanal Campaign, Munro was assigned to Naval Operating Base Cactus at Lunga Point, where small boat operations were coordinated. At the Second Battle of the Matanikau in September 1942, he was tasked with leading the extrication of a force of United States Marines that had been overrun by Japanese forces. He died of a gunshot wound at the age of 22 while using the Higgins boat he was piloting to shield from Japanese fire a landing craft filled with marines.
Several ships, buildings, and monuments have been dedicated to Munro and a street in his hometown is named in his honor. The anniversary of his death is annually observed in Cle Elum and at the Coast Guard Training Center Cape May. His grave has been designated a historical site by Washington State. He is the namesake of the "Douglas Munro March", the Navy League's Douglas A. Munro Award, the Coast Guard Foundation's Douglas Munro Scholarship Fund, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Douglas Munro-Robert H. Brooks Post. Munro is the only non-marine to have his name enshrined on the Wall of Heroes of the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
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