Medal of Honor Recipient Hector A. Cafferata, Jr. Passes Away at 86

Hector Cafferata, who received the Medal of Honor after waging a lone battle — in ankle-deep snow and in his stocking feet — against enemy forces during the Korean War’s storied Chosin Reservoir battle, died April 12 at a hospice in Venice, Fla. He was 86.
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