page_title: Hershel W. Williams
hierarchical_section_title: Hershel W. Williams
caption_attribution_description: English: Hershel W. Williams, USMC, Medal of Honor recipient, for actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima; image from official Marine Corps biography - http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/IMAGES/MOH/World_War_II/Hi_Res/Williams_HW.jpg
context_page_description: Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams is a retired United States Marine Corps warrant officer and United States Department of Veterans Affairs veterans service representative who received the United States military's highest decoration for valor—the Medal of Honor—for heroism above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He and Charles H. Coolidge are the only living Medal of Honor recipients from that war. In addition, he is the only surviving Marine to have received the Medal of Honor during World War II, and is the only surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the Pacific theater of the war.
context_section_description: Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams (born October 2, 1923) is a retired United States Marine Corps warrant officer and United States Department of Veterans Affairs veterans service representative who received the United States military's highest decoration for valor—the Medal of Honor—for heroism above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He and Charles H. Coolidge (U.S. Army) are the only living Medal of Honor recipients from that war. In addition, he is the only surviving Marine to have received the Medal of Honor during World War II, and is the only surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the Pacific theater of the war.
caption: Williams as a corporal in 1945
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