The Story Of The Great Hero We Lost In Action "Dale Eldon Christensen" of Gray, Iowa, Honoring Him For His Heroic Actions.

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Dale Eldon Christensen of Gray, Iowa, a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the  Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on July 16, 1944, in New Guinea.


Christensen served as a second lieutenant in Troop E of the 112th Cavalry Regiment. On July 16, 1994, along the Driniumor River in New Guinea, he single-handedly attacked and silenced an enemy machine gun. 

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Three days later, he surveyed an enemy strong point alone, then led his platoon in an assault that successfully destroyed the position.


He was killed in action on August 4, 1944, while leading his platoon on another attack against an enemy position.

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He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for these actions on May 10, 1945. He is buried at the Manila American Cemetery in Manila, the Philippines.

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On July 14, 1913, future President of the United States and WWII veteran Gerald Ford was born.  He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and joined the Navy after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  He served in the Pacific as a part of the Third and Fifth Fleets.  


After the war, he represented Michigan's fifth congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1949 until 1973, when he resigned to become the Vice President under Richard Nixon.  


After Nixon's resignation in 1974, Ford assumed the presidency.  He finished out the term but lost the reelection to Jimmy Carter.  


President Ford passed away on December 26, 2006 at the age of 93, in his home in California.

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