First Lieutenant Jack Cleveland Montgomery (World War II) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftgibson.asp.   Jack Montgomery, a native of Oklahoma and part Cherokee, joined the Oklahoma National Guard in the late 1930s and in 1940–1941. He re-enlisted shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, with the U.S. Army, 180th regiment of the 45th Infantry Division. The division had the greatest number of American Indian soldiers in its ranks, who chose a familiar cultural symbol, the "Thunderbird," for their insignia. First Lieutenant Montgomery shipped out with the 45th Division to North Africa and participated in the invasion of Sicily. Fighting near Padiglione, Italy, on February 22, 1944, Montgomery and his rifle platoons attacked three strong enemy positions; several soldiers surrendered to him. For his courage, Montgomery received the Medal of Honor. He died June 11, 2002. In 2006, the VA medical center in Muskogee, Oklahoma, was renamed for him, and the first to honor an American Indian veteran.
https://www.army.mil/nativeamericans/montgomery.html.
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Article by historian Tom Holm about Jack Cleveland Montgomery from the spring 2024 edition of the Gilder Lehrman Institute quarterly History Now. 

Jack Cleveland Montgomery: Peace to War and Back Again

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