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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 11 > Dunham, 89, war hero

Dunham, 89, war hero

By Richard Goldstein / The Bulletin
April 11, 2009

Russell Dunham, who as a U.S. Army sergeant in World War II received the Medal of Honor for charging up a snowy hill in the Alsace region of France and single-handedly killing, wounding or capturing 18 German soldiers, died Monday in Godfrey, Ill. He was 89.

The cause was congestive heart....

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