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Chilocco alumnus Ernest Childers (Muscogee [Creek]) receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers (left). 5th Army headquarters, April 8, 1944.
Lieutenant Childers received the honor because, working under heavy enemy fire, he wiped out 2 German machine gun nests near Oliveto, Italy, killing enemy snipers and capturing an artillery observer.
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