On 20 Feb 1042, during WWII, Lt. Edward O’Hare took off from the aircraft carrier Lexington in a raid against the Japanese position at Rabaul-and minutes later became America’s first flying ace. In mid-February 1942, the Lexington sailed...
On 8 Oct 1918, during WWI, Corporal Alvin C. York killed over 20 German soldiers and captured an additional 132 at the head of a small patrol in the Argonne Forest near the Meuse River in France. He was later promoted to sergeant and awarded the...
On 16 Sep 1945, Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, (captured by the Japanese on the island of Corregidor, in the Philippines), was freed by Russian forces from a POW camp in Manchuria. When President Franklin Roosevelt transferred Gen. Douglas MacArthur...
Our current president is, well, gaffe prone. While addressing the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division he said: “Throughout my service, first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate and then as a president, I’ve always run into you...
On a moonlit Afghan ridge on 25 Oct 2007, Specialist 4th Class Salvatore Giunta, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ran alone through a barrage of gunfire to rescue his injured sergeant who was being dragged off by terrorists who had ambushed the squad. Now a...
On 6 Oct Staff Sgt. Robert Miller will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save the lives of his Special Forces teammates and Afghan Army soldiers Miller “displayed immeasurable courage and uncommon valor”...
The German equivalent to the Medal of Honor is the Gold Cross Medal. Only 4 German soldiers have ever received it and no foreign soldier has ever received it—until 12 May. A German parachute infantry unit was under very heavy fire in Afghanistan and...
In his campaign literature, Calumet Park, IL, Mayor Joseph DuPar claimed that he was awarded four Bronze Stars and a Congressional Medal of Honor. It’s worthy of note that this Chicago suburb became the first town in America to name a street...
President Obama recently presented the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant First Class Jared Monti for valorous conduct above the call of duty. It was a posthumous award. Monti is the sixth recipient of the medal since 9-11 and the second to receive it...