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| rdfs:comment | - Colonel Mitchell Paige U.S.M.C. (Serbian:Михајло Пејић/Mihajlo Pejić) (August 31, 1918 – November 15, 2003) was a recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War II. He received this, the highest military honor awarded by the United States of America, for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on October 26, 1942, where, after all of the other Marines in his platoon were killed or wounded, he operated four machine guns, singlehandedly stopping an entire Japanese regiment.
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| Ribbon | - Medal of Honor ribbon.svg
- National Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg
- Purple Heart BAR.svg
- American Campaign Medal ribbon.svg
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign ribbon.svg
- China Service Medal ribbon.svg
- KSMRib.svg
- US Navy Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon.png
- United Nations Service Medal for Korea ribbon.png
- World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg
- American Defense Service ribbon.svg
- Marine Corps Good Conduct ribbon.svg
- Marine Corps Reserve Ribbon.svg
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| Battles | - World War II
- Korean War
- *Battle of Guadalcanal
- *Cape Gloucester
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| Alt | - A light blue ribbon with five white five pointed stars
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| placeofburial | - Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California
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| abstract | - Colonel Mitchell Paige U.S.M.C. (Serbian:Михајло Пејић/Mihajlo Pejić) (August 31, 1918 – November 15, 2003) was a recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War II. He received this, the highest military honor awarded by the United States of America, for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on October 26, 1942, where, after all of the other Marines in his platoon were killed or wounded, he operated four machine guns, singlehandedly stopping an entire Japanese regiment.
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