Join War Thunder for free using this link and get a premium t→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: That Time Detroit Gave Saddam Hussein the Key to the City https://youtu.be/h52cJBHGnmE In this video: While it might seem a little odd at first glance, it turns out the first helicopter pilot ever to receive the United States’ prestigious Medal of Honor, John Kelvin Koelsch, was born and and mostly raised in London, England. Considered an American citizen thanks to his parentage, Koelsch moved back to the US with his family in his teens, and soon after studied English at Princeton. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/11/the-badass-story-of-the-first-helicopter-pilot-to-receive-the-medal-of-honor/ Sources: http://www.dodlive.mil/2018/07/15/korean-war-aviator-was-first-helicopter-pilot-to-earn-medal-of-honor/ https://paw.princeton.edu/article/medal-honor https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/3-july-1952/ https://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean_war_project_remembrance_search_6_2013.html?key=35057 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3-bUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA210&dq=john+koelsch+korea&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ4Pjjm8_eAhUozYUKHbzvDukQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=john%20koelsch%20korea&f=false http://arlingtoncemetery.net/jkoelsch.htm https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/k/koelsch-john-kelvin.html http://arlingtoncemetery.net/jkoelsch.htm https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/k/koelsch-john-kelvin.html