Douglas Albert Munro
Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the United States Coast Guard to have received the Medal of Honor, the United Statess highest military award. Munro received the decoration posthumously for his actions as officerincharge of a group of landing craft on September 27, 1942, during the September Matanikau action in the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II.
Munro was born on October 11, 1919, in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada, to James Munro, originally from California, and Edith Thrower Fairey from Liverpool, England. The family moved to Vancouver, Washington, where his father worked as an electrician for Warren Construction Company. Despite having been born in Canada, Douglas Munro was already considered a U.S. National citizen , because both his parents were U.S. citizens, temporarily living outside the U.S.. The Munro family moved to the U.S. in 1922. Douglas grew up in South Cle Elum, Washington. He was educated at South Cle Elum Grade School and graduated from Cle Elum High School in 1937. He attended Central Washington College of Education for a year before leaving to enlist in the United States Coast Guard in 1939. He had an outstanding record as an enlisted man and was promoted rapidly through the ratings to a signalman, first class.
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