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Duane Dewey, Medal of Honor recipient with ‘a body of steel,’ dies at 89

Duane Dewey, who received the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade with his body to save fellow Marines during the Korean War, and whose recovery from grievous injuries led President Dwight D. Eisenhower to quip, “You must have a body of steel,” died Oct. 11 at a nursing home in St. Augustine, Fla. He was 89.

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Stars and Stripes broke the news in Washington, United States on Saturday, October 23, 2021.
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