Medal of Honor Monday: Jack L. Knight
On this day in 1945, a cavalryman is awarded a Medal of Honor. Jack L. Knight’s bravery came in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, the so-called “Forgotten Theater” of the war.
He is the only ground combat soldier to receive a Medal of Honor in that theater.
Knight’s little brother, Bill, remembers the day that his three oldest brothers, including Jack, left to join the Texas National Guard. It was November 1940, and the boys did not think they would be gone for more than a year.
“I worshipped those boys,” Bill said many years later, as Jack was inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame. “They were my heroes.”
All three brothers were assigned to the 124th Cavalry Regiment. Needless to say, the attack on Pearl Harbor more or less ensured that they were not home within a year. To the contrary, by February 1945, Jack was in Burma, near Loi-Kang. He was then in command of F Troop, which had been assigned to the Army’s MARS Task Force.
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