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DECEMBER 1st - 4th 1950
YUDAM-NI to HAGRU-RI
GENERAL RAYMOND G. DAVIS, KOREAN WAR 1950-1954
AWARDS: Medal of Honor,
Two Silver Star medals,
Legion of Merit, Combat V
& Bronze Star, Combat V
BORN: January 13, 1915 in
Fitzgerald, Georgia
DIED: September 3, 2003 in
Conyers, GA
SERVICE: Korean War
1950-1954 Commanding He earned the Nation's highest
Officer, 1st Marine Division, decoration for heroism, the Medal
7th Marines of Honor, during the 1st Marine
Division's historic fight to break
ACTIVE DUTY: May 1939 out of the Chosin Reservoir area.
to March 1972, United There, against overwhelming
States Marine Corps four- odds, he led his battalion in a
star-general who had served terrific four-day battle which
in World War II, the Korean saved a rifle company from
War, and the Vietnam War. annihilation and opened a
And was appointed as mountain pass for the escape of
Assistant Commandant of two trapped Marine regiments.
the Marine Corps
