Sergeant Clyde Thomason earned the Medal of Honor posthumously for his fearless leadership at Makin island, when he single-handedly dispatched a sniper and later was killed while leading his squad in an assault on a Japanese bunker.

Thomas had joined the Marines in 1934, serving until 1939 in the Pacific, and then reenlisted in January 1942, volunteering to become a Marine Raider. His remains were only recovered from Makin in 2001.

Thomason was the first enlisted Marine to earn the Medal of Honor in World War II.

Read his Medal of Honor citation and honor and remember him!