Mitchell Paige, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mitchell Paige

United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1918

Place of Birth: Charleroi, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 15-Nov-2003

Profession: military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Mitchell Paige

  • Colonel Mitchell Paige (Serbian: ??????? ?????, Mihajlo Pejic) (August 31, 1918 – November 15, 2003) was a United States Marine and a recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War II.
  • He received this, the highest military honor awarded by the United States of America, for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on October 26, 1942, where, after all of the other Marines in his platoon were killed or wounded, he operated four machine guns, singlehandedly stopping an entire Japanese regiment.

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