A Navy destroyer has been christened in honor of Louis H. Wilson Jr., a former Camp Pendleton Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II for the courageous leadership he showed fighting Japanese forces in the Battle of Guam. Wilson was a Mississippi native who enlisted in the Marines in 1941 and was sent to Camp Pendleton, where he became part of the 9th Regiment. Against unrelenting machine gunfire, Wilson and his unit captured a strategically important hill, then pushed forward, even though he had been wounded multiple times, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In 1955, Wilson has named commanding officer of Camp Pendleton’s 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Wilson’s accomplishments and leadership led him to be named Commandant of the Marines in 1975, a position he held for four years.