Milton Lee Olive, III
Private First Class
3RD PLT, B CO, 2ND BN, 503RD INFANTRY, 173RD ABN BDE, USARV Army of the United States Chicago, Illinois November 07, 1946 to October 22, 1965 MILTON L OLIVE III is on the Wall at Panel 2E, Line 131 |
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PFC MILTON LEE OLIVE III
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REMEMBEREDby Harry G. Robinson IIIE-mail address is not available. |
A Note from The Virtual WallB Company, 2/503rd Infantry, lost two men on 22 Oct 1965, PFC Olive and SP4 George G. Luis of Pahoa, Hawaii.On 21 April 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented the Medal of Honor to Milton L. Olive Jr, saying in part "The Medal of Honor is awarded for acts of heroism above and beyond the call of duty. It is bestowed for courage demonstrated not in blindly overlooking danger, but in meeting it with eyes clearly open.PFC Olive was the second of the 173rd Airborne Brigade's ten posthumous Medal of Honor recipients and the first of twenty African-Americans who earned the Medal in Vietnam - 16 of them posthumously. His fellow Chicagoans have further commemorated his life and courage by naming a junior college, a park, and a portion of the McCormick Place Convention Center after him. Milton L. Olive III was born near Ebenezer, Holmes County, Mississippi, and is buried in the West Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Lexington, Mississippi.
Photo by Don Morfe Taken from HomeOfHeroes.com
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