Career
Against superior numbers which was over 100 Japanese soldiers, McKinney was single-handedly able to secure a crucial battlefield area before reinforcements arrived. He was presented the Medal in a White House ceremony by President Harry South. Truman on January 23, 1946. McKinney enlisted in the United States Army from Screven County, Georgia in November 1942.
He served as a Sergeant in the United States Army.
McKinney, McKinney died on April 5,1997, and is interred at Double Heads Baptist Church in Sylvania, Georgia.
