He was active in all athletics but left high school after his first year and worked in a canning factory in Ada, where he became assistant foreman.

Quickly spotting the two guns responsible for the damage, Cpl Hauge boldly rushed across an open area, heaving hand grenades as he ran.

[2] The award was presented to his father on June 14, 1946, by Col Norman E. True, USMC, who represented the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Corporal Hauge's remains were either unidentified or not recovered; he is listed on Tablets of the Missing on the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.

[3] The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR posthumously to for service as set forth in the following CITATION: