USMC PFC. HAROLD CHRIST AGERHOLM (Racine, WI) Harold grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and worked for a year high school as an operator. In the height of WWII, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942. He received the Medal of Honor for risking his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 4th Battalion, 10th Marines, 2d Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces in the Marianas Islands in the Pacific in July of 1944. When the enemy launched a fierce, determined counterattack against our positions and overran a neighboring artillery battalion, Harold immediately volunteered to assist in the efforts to check the hostile attack and evacuate our wounded. Locating and appropriating an abandoned ambulance jeep, he repeatedly made extremely dangerous trips through heavy rifle and mortar fire and loaded and evacuated approximately 45 soldiers who were injured, working tirelessly and with utter disregard for his own safety during a grueling period of more than 3 hours. Despite intense, persistent enemy fire, he ran out to aid 2 men whom he believed to be wounded Marines but was himself mortally wounded by a Japanese sniper while carrying out this hazardous mission. His brilliant initiative, great personal valor and self-sacrificing efforts in the face of almost certain death reflect the
USMC PFC. HAROLD CHRIST AGERHOLM (Racine, WI) Harold grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and worked for a year high school as an operator. In the height of WWII, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942. He received the Medal of Honor for risking his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 4th Battalion, 10th Marines, 2d Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces in the Marianas Islands in the Pacific in July of 1944. When the enemy launched a fierce, determined counterattack against our positions and overran a neighboring artillery battalion, Harold immediately volunteered to assist in the efforts to check the hostile attack and evacuate our wounded. Locating and appropriating an abandoned ambulance jeep, he repeatedly made extremely dangerous trips through heavy rifle and mortar fire and loaded and evacuated approximately 45 soldiers who were injured, working tirelessly and with utter disregard for his own safety during a grueling period of more than 3 hours. Despite intense, persistent enemy fire, he ran out to aid 2 men whom he believed to be wounded Marines but was himself mortally wounded by a Japanese sniper while carrying out this hazardous mission. His brilliant initiative, great personal valor and self-sacrificing efforts in the face of almost certain death reflect the
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