Don't know if he is or isn't but he aught to be

[IronWing]

The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS ? Russell Dunham, an Illinois man who was awarded the Medal of Honor after killing nine German soldiers and taking two others captive while wounded during World War II, has died. He was 89.

Dunham died Monday of heart failure at his home in the southwestern Illinois community of Godfrey, said his stepdaughter, Annette Wilson. He had moved there just weeks ago from nearby Jerseyville.

Dunham never considered himself a hero on Jan. 8, 1945, when he charged a hill near Kayserbergs, France, despite being wounded in the back, Wilson said Thursday. "'You either fight your way out or lose,'" Dunham would say after becoming one of more than 3,400 Medal of Honor recipients, Wilson said, adding that he was extremely proud of the honor.

Dunham was an Army technical sergeant when he "single-handedly assaulted three enemy machine guns," the Medal of Honor Web site said.

Wearing a white robe made of a mattress cover, Dunham toted a dozen carbine magazines and had 12 hand grenades snagged in his belt, suspenders and buttonholes when he charged the snow-covered hill under fire from two machine-gunners and German riflemen, according to the profile.

By the end of the attack, Dunham had fired about 175 rounds of ammunition and used 11 grenades.

 

[nakedfrog]

And people say FPS games are unrealistic! 😛

 

[hiromizu]

Sources say a camera crew filmed this very event and used it in the film Predator.

 

[IronWing]

Arthor Blastowitz Dent

 

[TwiceOver]

I think this is the same guy that got captured and when searching him 3 german guys were fighting over who was going to keep his smokes. While fighting he pulled out a handgun, killed them all, and got away.

From what I saw on the news anyway.

EDIT: I think they also said there are only 97 MOH receivers still alive now.