McCarthy was thirty-three; overage for a company commander. He was Irish and he looked it: husky, red … See more

In 1949, McCarthy drove from Maine to North Carolina in order to visit the families of twenty-six Marines that had been killed on Iwo Jima. He told each family that their man had been just as brave as he was, just not as luck… See more

The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR to:
for service as set forth in the following CITATION:
For conspic… See more

• His military record lists his year of birth as 1911, but it is inscribed as 1912 on his headstone. See more

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