Kazuo Otani received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic leadership on this day in 1944. Otani’s platoon was pinned down by a German ambush in Italy. He rallied the platoon, organizing an effective counter-attack, and dragging a wounded soldier to safety, before he was cut down. Honor and remember him!
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