Signal Mountain resident Charles Coolidge, 92, will be one of a dozen World War II Medal of Honor recipients to be featured on a new set of stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service this month.
The first day of issue for the “World War II Medal of Honor” Forever stamps will be Veterans Day, Nov. 11. A special stamp dedication ceremony honoring Coolidge will be held Nov. 13 at Signal Crest United Methodist Church.
Coolidge, for whom Chattanooga’s downtown riverfront park is named, was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1945.
Coolidge earned the medal during a four-day battle that began on Oct. 24, 1944, in Belmont sur Buttant, France. The then-U.S. Army Sgt. Coolidge took battlefield command of a group of recently arrived soldiers when they ran into a German infantry company escorted by tanks.
The German company repeatedly assaulted Coolidge’s heavy machine gun unit, but the men repelled the attacks.