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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: June 30, 2008
Caption: Weeden E. Osborne-Medal of Honor Recipient
Additional Description: Lieutenant Weeden E. Osborne is buried in Aisne Marne American Cemetery, Lot A, Section 3, Grave 39. He was killed in action. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: *OSBORNE, WEEDON E. • Rank and organization: Lieutenant, Junior Grade, (Dental Corps), U.S. Navy • Appointed from: Illinois • Entered • Other Citation: For extraordinary heroism while attached to the 6th Regiment, U.S. Marines, in actual conflict with the enemy and under fire during the advance on Bouresche, France, on 6 June 1918. In the hottest of the fighting when the marines made their famous advance on Bouresche at the southern edge of Belleau Wood, Lt (j.g.). Osborne threw himself zealously into the work of rescuing the wounded. Extremely courageous in the performance of this perilous task, he was killed while carrying a wounded officer to a place of safety.
Submitted: January 10, 2016, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p343813
File Size: 3.227 Megabytes

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