Michael Joseph Daly was a United States Army infantry officer who received the United States military's highest decoration for valor?the Medal of Honor?for his actions in World War II. He received the medal for single-handedly eliminating 15 German soldiers including a German patrol, and destroying three machine-gun nests. He resigned from the United States Military Academy after one year to fight in the world war and was sent to Europe, participating in the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach. After the D-Day invasion, he fought on to Germany where he was wounded. He received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant, returned to combat, and participated in the action that earned him the Medal of Honor. After being presented the Medal of Honor in a ceremony at the White House by President Harry S. Truman, he went back to his hometown, started a family, and became a businessman. He died of cancer at his home in 2008, at the age of 83. 

September 15th, 1924 in New York City  /  Died:   Jul 25th, 2008 - pancreatic cancer