MEDAL OF HONOR NIGHT COMMANDO 18 post-9/11 service members have been given the Medal of Honor. C-46D Commando. 7.62mm ammunition could be carried for day missions and 35,000 rounds for night. Former Special Forces medic to receive Medal of Honor. On the last night. It was the same piece of legislation that opened the door to the Medal of Honor for.

A hero in combat, 'Commando' Charles Kelly battled demons at home after winning the Medal of Honor in the European Theater. Former Special Forces medic to receive Medal of Honor. On the last night. It was the same piece of legislation that opened the door to the Medal of Honor for.

North Side's battlefield hero found life's wounds too deep Monday, May 31, 1999 By Steve Levin, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Chuck Kelly had never depended on anyone for anything before and, at 64 years old, he wasn't going to start. On a cold late-December day in 1984, he shuffled out of the North Side apartment he shared with one of his brothers and waited patiently for the bus to take him to Veterans Hospital in Oakland. Chuck 'Commando' Kelly, Pittsburgh's World War II hero and the first soldier in the European war theater to receive the nation's Medal of Honor. (Post-Gazette Archives - Undated) During admissions he told hospital personnel that he had no relatives, even though five brothers lived in the Pittsburgh area. He was admitted in critical condition with kidney and liver failure. That night, when the nurses left his room, he pulled out the tubes that doctors had hoped would save his life.

By the time two of his brothers arrived the next day, Kelly was unconscious. 11, surrounded by doctors unaware of his heroic past and forgotten by the city that had once claimed there was no 'braver man living or dead.' Fourteen years after his death, much remains unknown about the life of Charles E. Kelly, the North Side native son and Medal of Honor recipient better known as 'Commando' Kelly. Yet he was the first soldier in the European war theater to receive the nation's highest military award for valor and was one of the most celebrated military heroes of World War II. Were he alive, Kelly would probably be nonplused by the attention.

But he would understand it. When he came home from the war, he was feted with parades and promises. Later, he endured relentless stories in newspapers around the country about the vagaries of his life. He never complained, maintaining that Visual Basic 2010 Express here. 'I take life as it comes, the good with the bad.'