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John Basilone

1916 - 1945

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John Basilone (November 4, 1916 – February 19, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle for Henderson Field in the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Navy Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was the only enlisted Marine to receive both of these decorations in World War II. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on June 3, 1940, after serving three years in the United States Army with duty in the Philippines. He was deployed to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in August 1942, he took part in the invasion of Guadalcanal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Basilone has received more than 5,643,308 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. John Basilone is the 918th most popular military personnel (up from 972nd in 2019), the 2,655th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,012th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Basilone ranks 918 out of 2,058. Before him are Rudolf Schmidt, Jacques François Dugommier, Dan Shomron, Karl Lennart Oesch, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, and Monte Melkonian. After him are Karl Mauss, Alexey Kaledin, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, and Wolfgang Lotz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, John Basilone ranks 98. Before him are Hubert Maga, Manea Mănescu, Stjepan Filipović, Archie Moore, Mercedes McCambridge, and Chiang Wei-kuo. After him are Julio César Turbay Ayala, Bismillah Khan, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Chiang Fang-liang, Lung Chien, and Yekaterina Budanova. Among people deceased in 1945, John Basilone ranks 156. Before him are Mile Budak, Alfréd Schaffer, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Jambyl Jabayev, Vilém Mathesius, and Sigmund Rascher. After him are Alla Nazimova, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Nikolai Berzarin, and Eduard Wirths.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Basilone ranks 2,655 out of 20,380. Before him are Marian Anderson (1897), J. J. Abrams (1966), Kamehameha III (1814), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Jane Alexander (1939), and Monte Melkonian (1957). After him are Merian C. Cooper (1893), John Kennedy Toole (1937), David Baltimore (1938), Lew Wallace (1827), Ed McBain (1926), and Edsel Ford (1893).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, John Basilone ranks 43. Before him are David Farragut (1801), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Joseph Stilwell (1883), Matthew Ridgway (1895), John C. Woods (1911), and Monte Melkonian (1957). After him are Philip Sheridan (1831), Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), Chris Kyle (1974), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Carl Brashear (1931), and George Dewey (1837).

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