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First Lieutenant John Robert Fox was killed in action when he deliberately called for artillery fire on his own position, after his position was overrun, in order to defeat a German attack in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, northern Italy during World War II. . Fox was only 29 years old when he called artillery fire on his own position the day after Christmas in 1944, . More than fifty years after his death, Fox was awarded the Medal of Honor.
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