Awarded the Nation's Highest Military Award, Master Sergeant Hubert L. Lee was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman, 1 February 1952 for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy near Ip-o-ri, Korea on 1 February 1951 while a member of Company I, 23rd Infantry, 2nd Division.

Note:  His name is spelled two different ways in the article.  Later in the 31st Infantry Division Yearbook for Company M, 155th Infantry, it is again spelled HUBERT.  Photo taken at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, 1953