Flying his P-38 Lightning, nicknamed Skidoo, Dahl shot down more than five enemy planes in the Pacific.
By Jon Guttman
This marks the fifth time a Navy vessel has donned the Intrepid name, and the first since 1974, when the carrier Intrepid was decommissioned.
Biden will bestow the medal posthumously to six men and one living recipient at a White House ceremony.
This Congress begins with more members who are military veterans than any session in the last eight years.
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