Posted February 23, 2020 5:00 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

By Katie Lange

Medal of Honor Monday

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Having massive amounts of artillery land all around you must be terrifying, but for Army 2nd Lt. Lee Hartell, it didn’t keep him from doing his job in Korea. He lost his life, but his actions saved a lot of others, and they earned him the Medal of Honor.

Hartell was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 23, 1923, and raised in Danbury, Connecticut. He joined the Connecticut Army National Guard in 1940 and went active-duty during World War II, serving in the South Pacific. He was discharged after the war but rejoined the Guard as a second lieutenant pretty quickly, returning to active duty in 1948. A few years later, he found himself deployed to Korea.

Army 2nd Lt. Lee Hartell. Army photo
Army 2nd Lt. Lee Hartell. Army photo

Early on the morning of Aug. 27, 1951, Hartell was serving as the forward observer of Battery A of the Army’s 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, when his unit was attacked by enemy soldiers near Kobangsan-ni in South Korea.

The unit was on a …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.