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Apr 29, 1926 Downers Grove, Illinois, United States Died on 08 Jun 1945 (aged 19)
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
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About Fred Faulkner Lester
- Fred Faulkner Lester (April 29, 1926 – June 8, 1945) was a United States Navy hospital corpsman who was killed in action during World War II while assigned to a Marine Corps rifle company.
- He was posthumously awarded the nation's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for heroic actions "above and beyond the call of duty" on June 8, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. Lester was buried at Clarendon Hills Cemetery in Darien, Illinois.
- The destroyer escort USS Lester (DE-1022) was named in his honor, as was Camp Lester, a Marine Corps installation, at Chatan, Okinawa, Japan, the former site of U.S.
- Naval Hospital Okinawa.
