Discharge or Transfer?

On October 12, 1945, President Truman gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Desmond T. Daws. His citation, listing more than half a dozen acts of heroism on Guam, Leyte, and Okinawa, said he had become a "symbol for outstanding gallantry throughout the 77th Infantry Division." As a member of the 307th Infantry Medical Detachment, PFC Daws had rescued 75 wounded men from the battlefields in Okinawa. Daws was a noncombatant conscientious objector. Other unarmed soldiers have received medals for heroism, and noncombatant COs as a group have received praise from officers and non-commissioned offi cers who have worked with them.

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