Daniel Daly
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1873-1937) · United States · On the map · Died at 63 · Born 153 years ago today
Daniel Joseph Daly was a United States Marine and one of nineteen U.S. servicemen to have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice. Daly and Major General Smedley Butler are the only Marines who earned two Medals of Honor for two separate acts of valor.
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Lived 1873 to 1937 · aged 63