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Pascal Cleatus Poolaw Sr.

1922–1967

First Sergeant

WWII: Company M, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division; Korea: Company C, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; Vietnam: Company C, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (near Loc Ninh)

Documented decorations

Pascal Cleatus Poolaw Sr. is named by the Department of Veterans Affairs and by the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame as one of the most decorated American Indian Soldiers in U.S. history. The Oklahoma inductee page states four Silver Stars, five Bronze Star Medals, and three Purple Hearts. The VA #VeteranOfTheDay article walks the Purple Hearts and Silver Stars across World War II, Korea, and the fight near Loc Ninh where he was killed on November 7, 1967, while pulling a wounded man to cover.

This decorations page records the Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal, and Silver Star from those public institutional accounts. A Distinguished Service Cross also appears in the VA narrative for Korea. Service crosses are not a badge type on this register’s medal row; the page will not invent a Medal of Honor Poolaw was not awarded.

He is not yet on a Vietnam war-roll essay. Kiowa warrior tradition and a funeral statement by his wife are part of the public memory. They are not U.S. decorations, and they are not printed here as medals.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

A publisher register — not a verification

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