Lewis Millett

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Lewis Lee Millett Sr. (December 15, 1920 – November 14, 2009) was a United States Army officer who was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge. He enlisted in the United States National Guard while still in high school and then in 1940 joined the United States Army Air Corps. When he thought that the United States would not participate in World War II, he deserted and went to Canada with a friend where they joined the Canadian Army and were sent to London. He served briefly with the Canadian Forces in London but soon transferred to the United States Army, which had since joined the war. While serving with the army in World War II, he received a Silver Star for driving a burning ammunition truck away from a group of soldiers before it exploded. He later served in the Vietnam War and retired from the army in 1973. He died of congestive heart failure in 2009.

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