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A half-century later, De Wert’s sacrifice was honored again with the Oct. 1 dedication, in his name, of the Navy branch medical clinic at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif. The clinic, a branch of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, provides care at the camp, which is tucked in the Eastern Sierras.

The staff there wanted the clinic named for a corpsman who received the Medal of Honor, said Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman (FMF) Fred Kasper. The dedication to De Wert for his service in Korea befits the training center, which was developed to learn cold-weather lessons drawn from the wintry battles leathernecks fought on the Korean Peninsula.