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RIP Vernon Baker


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Vernon Baker, who was the only living black veteran awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in World War II, receiving it 52 years after he wiped out four German machine gun nests on a hilltop in northern Italy, died on Tuesday at his home near St. Maries, Idaho. He was 90. ...

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