National Infantry Museum - #MedalOfHonor Benjamin Lewis Salomon (September 1, 1914 – July 7, 1944) was a United States Army dentist during World War II, assigned as a front-line surgeon. When the
US Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage - 07 JUL 1944: CPT Ben Salomon was killed in action at Saipan while defending patients. He was later awarded the Medal of
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Ben L Salomon, The Lone Machine Gunner: A Valiant Story from WW2, in a fly by Edgar Wollstone | Goodreads
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This Dentist Died In a Japanese Banzai Attack But He Took Over 90 Enemy Soldiers With Him | War History Online
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