text1: WASHINGTON - Russell Dunham, a World War II Army veteran who received the Medal of Honor, the military's highest decoration for valor, after he assaulted three German machine gun emplacements, killed nine German soldiers, and took two prisoners on a snowy morning in 1945, died Monday at his home in Godfrey, Ill., of congestive heart failure. He was 89. On Jan. 8, 1945, Technical Sergeant Dunham's company, part of the Third Infantry Division, was facing a formidable German force at the small town of Kayserberg, France, near the German border. The men were issued white mattress covers as camouflage in the deep snow.
text2: Russell Dunham was killed by nine German soldiers.