Henry A. Commiskey, Sr.
Major Henry Alfred Commiskey, Sr. was a United States Marine who served during World War II at the Battle of Iwo Jima and in the Korean War in the Inchon landing. As a lieutenant, he was the first Marine to receive the Medal of Honor the nations highest decoration for valor for extraordinary heroism in the Korean War, leading a charge up a hill and killing seven enemy soldiers in handtohand combat.
Henry Commiskey was born on January 10, 1927, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Sacred Heart School in Hattiesburg and worked as a brakeman on the Illinois Central Railroad before joining the Marine Corps on January 12, 1944, two days after his 17th birthday.
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