Paul Ray Smith saved over 100 lives defending a critical position near the Baghdad airport during the early days of the Iraq ...

Dwight Hal Johnson received the nation's highest military honor in 1968. Three years later, he was killed during an attempted ...

Joe Foss received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 ...

Recent legislation has officially changed what was a long-standing monthly pension amount for Medal of Honor recipients, and ...

Even being blown overboard could not stop Cassin Young from saving his ship.

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Wounded several times, Harold Fritz bravely led his platoon through a dire ambush in Vietnam, leading to the most prestigious ...

Pfc. Noah Knight found himself holding off an enemy attack in the Korean War, taking out whole squads and earning the Medal of Honor. By Nicholas Slayton Published Nov 24, 2025 8:20 AM EST Seven ...

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1892 and raised in Albany, New York, Henry Johnson didn’t come from privilege or prominence. He was a working-class Black man during the height of Jim Crow ...

A decade after Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis died shielding a fellow soldier in Afghanistan, his family now waits as President ...

Before becoming an acclaimed sprinter on the world stage, Paddock served in field artillery during World War I. It was not a ...