Though he had landed on the beaches of Normandy and been
wounded in battle fighting with the U.S. Army, Staff Sergeant
Marcario GarcÃa was not yet a U.S. citizen when President
Harry S. Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor on August
23, 1945. GarcÃa became the first Mexican national to receive
the American military’s highest honor.
Marcario GarcÃa (January 20, 1920 – December 24, 1972)
