On this day in 1997, Vernon Baker of St. Maries, Idaho, became the only living African-American World War II soldier to receive the prestigious Congressional Medal of Honor. The honor was denied to Black soldiers in WWII. In 1945 Baker, a First Lieutenant in the segregated U.S. Army, successfully attacked a German stronghold at Castle Aghinolfi. The mission helped drive the German forces out of northern Italy. Baker died on July 13, 2010, in St. Maries, Idaho. | Idaho Experience
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Never forget U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Vernon J. Baker who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for his actions on April 5–6, 1945, near Viareggio, Italy. Then Second Lieutenant Baker demonstrated outstanding courage and leadership in destroying enemy installations, machine gun nests, and equipment, killing German soldiers during his compan
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