Medal of Honor Monday: Army 1st Lt. Raymond Beaudoin

By Ammoland

By Katie Lange

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Army 1st Lt. Raymond Beaudoin made it through years of battle during World War II, just to be cut down within reach of its end. But the actions he took to save his platoon will always be remembered, and that’s why he earned the Medal of Honor.

Beaudoin was born on July 15, 1918, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he grew up with seven siblings. Few details of his early life are available, but when he got older, he worked as a salesman and was a member of the Massachusetts National Guard.

About a year before the United States joined World War II, Beaudoin switched to active-duty Army and served with Company F of the 119th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division — one of the first divisions to expand the beachheads at Normandy, France, during the 1944 D-Day invasion.

On April 6, 1945, Beaudoin was leading a platoon over flat, open terrain on the way to Hamelin in northeast Germany …Read the Rest

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