VTCC#6: Medal of Honor 6 Mystery Cache

Cache is not at posted coordinates. The caches in this series all contain questions related to the history of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. All the information needed to answer the questions in this 21-cache series can be found by going to the corps Guidon.

Six of the Medal of Honor caches (seven total) all contain hints to help you find a 21^st cache. You need to complete those first before going after the final one in the series. All containers in the series, except for the final, are small homemade bisons constructed out of PVC with soda bottle tops. They are painted in such a way as to be VT appropriate.

Best of luck! Contact cacheNquilt or myself directly with questions. Take care, and best of luck!

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Virginia Tech is home to seven alumni that have earned the nation’s highest honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor.  This number is second only to the U.S. Military service academies.  On six of these caches, when found, you will also find a letter/number combination that will fill in a part of the puzzle to the final VT cache in the series.  That cache’s coordinates are:

37 03.ABC

37 24.DEF

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Which Virginia Tech Medal of Honor recipient is described by the citation below?

General Orders: War Department, General Orders No. 35, May 9, 1945

"The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to

SECOND LIEUTENANT (AIR CORPS) XXXXXXX

UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES

for service as set forth in the following CITATION:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty near Merseburg, Germany, on 2 November 1944. While on a mission, the bomber, of which 2d Lt. XXXXXXX was the navigator, was struck by 3 enemy antiaircraft shells.  The plane suffered serious damage and 2d Lt. XXXXXXX was severely wounded in the side and back by shell fragments which penetrated his body.  In spite of extreme pain and great loss of blood he refused an offered injection of morphine.  He was determined to keep his mental faculties clear in order that he might direct his plane out of danger and so save his comrades.  Not being able to arise from the floor, he asked to be propped up in order to enable him to see his charts and instruments.  He successfully directed the navigation of his lone bomber for 2 1/2 hours so well it avoided enemy flak and returned to the field without further damage.  Only when the plane had arrived in the safe area over the English Channel did he feel that he had accomplished his objective; then, and only then, he permitted an injection of a sedative.  He died shortly after being removed from the plane.  The heroism and self-sacrifice of 2d Lt. XXXXXXX are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.”

/S/ HARRY S. TRUMAN

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1. Antoine A.M. Gaujot                      N 37 3.122           W 76 24.388
2. Richard Thomas Shea                    N 37 3.122           W 76 24.988
3. Robert E. Femoyer                        N 37 3.524           W 76 24.388
4. Earle D. Gregory                           N 37 3.524           W 76 24.988