Eugene B. Fluckey RIP

[epalmer84]

Eugene B. Fluckey passed away on 28 June 2007. He was one of six known holders of both the Medal of Honor and Eagle Scout.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_B._Fluckey

 

Aquilla J. Dyess, Robert Edward Femoyer, Mitchell Paige, Leo K. Thorsness and Jay Zeamer, Jr. are the other five; Thorsness is now the only survivor of this group.

 

(I attempted to post this last weekend, but kept getting database errors; I have been at summer camp all this week.)

 

Ed

[Trevorum]

Thanks, Ed.

 

From Ed's link:

 

"As commanding officer of Barb, Fluckey established himself as one of the greatest submarine skippers ... In one of the stranger incidents in the war, Fluckey sent a landing party ashore ... the sole landing by U.S. military forces on the Japanese home islands during World War II.

 

Fluckey ordered that this landing party be comprised of ... as many ex-Boy Scouts as possible because Fluckey knew they would know how to find their way in unfamiliar territory.