98 year old Marine dies, last WW2 US Medal of Honor awardee
WASHINGTON D.C.: Hershel "Woody" Williams, the final surviving Medal of Honor recipient from World War Two, has died at a hospital in his home state of West Virginia at the age of 98, according to the U.S. military.
Williams earned the Congressional Medal of Honor after single-handedly eliminating a number of Japanese positions during the bloodiest battles on Iwo Jima.
In a statement, U.S. Secretary of De