This Day in History: Robert E. Laws's Medal of Honor

Laws set out to attack the enemy, on his own, while his men covered his advance. He was hurling grenades at the Japanese, but they were hurling grenades at him, too. Ultimately, one of his grenades found its mark and destroyed the enemy pillbox.
Yet there was still more of the enemy, and Laws wasn’t done. He was soon leading an attack against some entrenched riflemen nearby. He had more grenades by then, passed to him by some of his squad. He was wounded in the arms, legs, body, and head. His citation notes that “grenades and TNT charges” continued to explode near him.
But he just kept going.
At about this time, three Japanese charged him with fixed bayonets. He took out the first two with a machine gun. He engaged the third in hand-to-hand combat, eventually taking a long tumble down a hill with that Japanese combatant. When the two reached the base of the hill, the enemy soldier was dead. Laws simply rose and scrambled back up the hill.