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Everett P. Pope

Major Pope, USMC, was a graduate of Bowdoin in 1941 and was captain of the state-champion tennis team and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He fought in the Pacific at Guadalcanal and Peleliu, where he received the nation’s highest military honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor, while leading his rifle company in battle.

Everett P. Pope
President Truman presenting Everett P. Pope with the Medal of Honor, 1945

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