WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina |Medal of Honor recipient honored with memorial service
FORT JACKSON, SC (WIS) - The Midlands honored the life and service of a Medal of Honor recipient Friday.
Army Master Sgt. John F. Baker Jr. died January 20th in Columbia. Baker was 66 years-old.
Friends, family and fellow service members gathered for a memorial service Friday at Fort Jackson.
Baker was presented with the medal of honor for his heroism during the Vietnam war. He earned the nation's highest award for valor in combat while serving as a private first class with the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment. After his unit was ambushed in 1966, Baker saved his comrades but also knocked out six Viet Cong machine gun bunkers and killed 10 enemy soldiers.
Baker will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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