The Still-Living Janitor Who Received a 'Posthumous' Medal of Honor

It's September 1943, and American and Allied forces are advancing up the Italian Peninsula. Army Pvt. William Crawford is the squad scout for I company, 142nd Infantry Regiment, near Altavilla, Italy. As he approached the crest of Hill 424, he ran into a wall of machine gun and small arms fire. Crawford, armed with just his rifle and some grenades, destroyed the enemy dugouts and scattered the defenders. Crawford was declared killed in action that day and was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor, which was presented to his father. The only problem was that Bill Crawford wasn't dead. He had been captured by the Germans when he stopped to help a wounded fellow soldier and spent almost the rest of World War II in a Nazi prisoner of war camp.