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Samuel S. Coursen
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Samuel Streit Coursen (August 4, 1926 – October 12, 1950) was a 1949 graduate of the United States Military Academy and company commander in the United States Army during the Korean War.
He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions on October 12, 1950.
Samuel S. Coursen was born August 4, 1926, in Madison, New Jersey. His father, Wallace Melville Coursen, was a principal in the New York accounting firm of Haskins & Sells; his mother was the former Kathleen Howell. Coursen graduated in 1945 from the Newark (New Jersey) Academy where he was an accomplished athlete.
He was awarded an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy in 1945 and graduated with the class of 1949.
After graduation, Coursen married Evangeline Joy Sprague of Virginia Beach, Virginia and the daughter of U.S. Navy Captain Albert Sprague, then commander of the Navy Ammunition Depot at Lake Denmark, New Jersey.
Coursen was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry in the Regular Army upon graduation from West Point. In August 1949, he attended the Officer's Basic Course of the Ground General School at Fort Riley, Kansas. By January 1950, Coursen was going through the Infantry Officer's Basic and Basic Airborne courses at Fort Benning, Georgia. In July 1950, he was en route to Far East Command. Promoted to first lieutenant in the Army of the United States, Coursen took command of a platoon of Company C, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division on October 6, 1950. The 5th Cavalry fought in the Pacific theater during World War II and in the post-war years posted in Japan. The regiment was transferred to Korea in July 1950, weeks after the North Korean invasion that prompted the Korean War.
UN offensive into North Korea#The Kumch'on Pocket (9-14 October)
As more United Nations Command (UN) forces deployed to South Korea, they slowed the North Korean Korean People's Army (KPA) advance, holding out and maintaining the Pusan Perimeter in the southeast of the country. The Inchon landings on 15 September followed the next day by the UN breakout from the Pusan Perimeter forced the KPA to retreat.
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