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Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips (Korea) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/marietta.asp. He received the Medal of Honor while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, in recognition of great personal valor and risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in Korea, November 4, 1950. He was killed in action on November 27, 1950, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.  

Lee Hugh Phillips was born on February 3, 1930, in Stockbridge, Georgia. He attended school in Ellenwood, Georgia, until 1945, then worked six months painting picture frames for the Georgia Art Supply Company of Atlanta, and more than a year as a stock clerk at the Davison-Paxton department store in that city. He enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve on January 17, 1948, and after six months of inactive duty, joined the regular Marine Corps on July 19, 1948.

Completing his recruit training at Parris Island, South Carolina in October 1948, he was promoted to private first class and assigned to the 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He remained with the 8th Marines for a year, serving with the regiment on Caribbean maneuvers in February and March 1949, and in the Mediterranean from May to September 1949. He then served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines until August 1950, when the battalion was assigned to the 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division for service in Korea. He sailed from San Diego, California, with that unit in September 1950, and had fought with Company E in the capture of Seoul before he was killed in action.
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