Born: 16 September 1900, Harrisburg, Ill. Other Navy awards: Navy Cross, Navy-Marine Corps Medal. Citation: For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the rescue and salvage ...
Canley, the Navy’s latest expeditionary sea base ... First Marine Division. According to his Medal of Honor citation, Canley “repeatedly rushed across fire-swept terrain to carry his wounded ...
From his Medal of Honor citation ... the citation reads. His bravery also earned him a spot in the history books as one of the most highly-decorated heroes in U.S. military history — and ...
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This Medal of Honor recipient jumped on a live flare to save his crewOn the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...
More than 24,000 people have signed the Change.org petition requesting that the museum add Chapman’s story to approximately ...
In the last days of a year of struggle for the US military, the White House is presenting the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor under fire, to three service members.
Despite its heroic stand, not one member of the 3rd Division was awarded the Medal of Honor throughout World ... In short order, his citation reads, he “snaked his way to a point within 35 ...
His ambitions progressed from civil engineering to the U.S. Navy and finally ... The results, as described in Levitow’s Medal of Honor citation, were devastating: ”The resulting explosion ...
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