Michael Joseph Daly was an Irish-American United States Army infantry officer who received the United States military's highest decoration for valor—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. He received the medal for single-handedly eliminating 15 German soldiers including a German patrol, and destroying three machine-gun nests.
Into the Jaws of Death: Troops from the First Division landing on Omaha Beach – photograph by Robert F. Sargent
Truman presenting Captain Daly with the Medal of Honor in 1945
Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the city of Bridgeport and towns of Trumbull, Easton, Weston, and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut. As of 2020, the town had a population of 61,512. The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.
Postcard from 1932 showing bathers at Fairfield Beach
Historical Postcard of the Tide Mill Tavern, Southport
Fairfield's Burr Homestead in a 1938 photo
Pequot Library in Southport, 1966