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The late senator Daniel Inouye undeniably deserves to be on this list. He solo'd multiple heavily fortified German positions during battle in Italy with no regard for the horrific wounds he received during combat.
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The late senator Daniel Inouye undeniably deserves to be on this list. He solo\'d multiple heavily fortified German positions during battle in Italy with no regard for the horrific wounds he received during combat.
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Inouye as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, coming within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade, a German soldier inside the bunker fired a rifle grenade, which struck his right elbow, nearly severing most of his arm and leaving his primed grenade reflexively
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Inouye as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, coming within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade, a German soldier inside the bunker fired a rifle grenade, which struck his right elbow, nearly severing most of his arm and leaving his primed grenade reflexively \"clenched in a fist that suddenly didn\'t belong to me anymore\".[12] Inouye\'s horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. While the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the enemy soldier aimed his rifle at him, Inouye tossed the grenade into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. He awoke to see the worried men of his platoon hovering over him. His only comment before being carried away was to order them back to their positions, saying \"nobody called off the war!\"[13]
The remainder of Inouye\'s mutilated right arm was later amputated at a field hospital without proper anesthesia, as he had been given too much morphine at an aid station and it was feared any more would lower his blood pressure enough to kill him
