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Description: Corporal Anthony Peter Demato, USMC; posthumous Medal of Honor recipient; Killed in action during World War II on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. On the night of 19-20 February 1944, while in a foxhole with two companions, he threw himself upon an enemy grenade, absorbing the explosion in his body. He was instantly killed.
Title: Damato AP
Credit: http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/Who%27s%20Who/D-F/Damato_AP.aspx
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