Photo of Medal of Honor Recipient Tibor Rubin

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Tibor Rubin

P.O.W.
U.S. Army
Medal Of Honor, Korea

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While his unit was retreating to the Pusan Perimeter in the early stages of the Korean War, Corporal Rubin remained behind to keep open the vital Taegu-Pusan Road, solely defending his hill in a 24-hour battle against overwhelming rides of enemy forces in full assault, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Later, during the break-out from Pusan, in continued fighting Corporal Rubin helped to capture hundreds of prisoners. In an enemy night-time assault on October 30, 1950, he manned a machine-gun for a two day effort to repulse the enemy, until his ammunition was expended. Corporal Rubin was subsequently wounded and captured. During nearly three years as a prisoner of war, he drew on his experiences from World War II as a young Hungarian boy interred by the Nazis, and the lessons in survival he learned in that tragic experience from which he emerged as the sole surviving member of his family. Over the period of his captivity in North Korea, Corporal Rubin encouraged other prisoners, often risking torture or death to sneak out of the camp at night to obtain food for others. His brave, selfless efforts were directly attributed to saving the lives of as many as forty fellow prisoners.

Hungarian-Born Tibor Rubin suffered interment under the Nazi's in WWII, during which time he was the only member of his family to survive. Emigrating to the United States after the war and joining the Army, his WWII captivity and suffering enabled him to survive captivity to the North Koreans as well, and enabled him to further assist and encourage survival of his comrades. His Medal of Honor was belated presented by President George W. Bush in 2005.

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