Valor Last Full Measure

First Lt. John R. Fox

U.S. Army

Medal of Honor

Italy

Dec. 26, 1944

On Christmas Day 1944 the U.S. Army’s segregated 92nd Infantry Division—the celebrated “Buffalo Soldiers”—held a tenuous position in Sommocolonia, a village along central Italy’s Serchio River. The Fifth Army had called off a general assault the day before, but this unit remained