Articles from ARMY Magazine, Headline News, and AUSA News on the Congressional Medal of Honor
Lt. Col. Charles Whittlesey, who commanded the famed Lost Battalion of World War I, is the subject of the latest graphic novel in the Association of the U.S. Army’s series on recipients of the nation’s highest award for valor.
Former Staff Sgt. Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, who fought waves of enemy soldiers before being captured and held for over two years during the Korean War, is the subject of the latest graphic novel in the Association of the U.S. Army’s series on recipients of the nation’s highest award for valor.
More than 160 years after participating in what’s now known as the Great Locomotive Chase, Pvts. Philip Shadrach and George Wilson were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
The two Civil War heroes were recognized with the nation’s highest award for valor by President Joe Biden during a July 3 ceremony at the White House.
“This was a long time coming,” Biden said during the ceremony, as he described the Great Locomotive Chase as “one of the most daring operations in the entire Civil War.”
The Army has renamed its short-range air defense system for Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Mitchell Stout, an artilleryman who was killed protecting his fellow soldiers in Vietnam.
Announced June 15 at the National Museum of the United States Army during a celebration of the Army’s 249th birthday, the Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense system, known as M-SHORAD, is now the Sgt. Stout, named for the only air defense artillery soldier to earn the nation’s highest award for valor.
Retired Capt. Flo Groberg, who tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan to protect his fellow soldiers, is the subject of the latest graphic novel in the Association of the U.S. Army’s series on recipients of the nation’s highest award for valor.
Clarence Sasser, who received the Medal of Honor for saving his fellow soldiers’ lives in Vietnam, died May 13. He was 76.
In January 1968, then-Pfc. Sasser was a medical aidman with 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, when his unit was sent on an assault in Ding Tuong Province, Vietnam, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
Retired Col. Ralph Puckett, a legendary and revered Army Ranger who fought in Korea and Vietnam, died April 8. He was 97.
Puckett, an inaugural member of the Ranger Hall of Fame, was awarded the Medal of Honor in May 2021, more than 70 years after leading the 8th Army Ranger Company to capture a frozen hilltop near the Chinese border during the Korean War.
Staff Sgt. Ruben Rivers, who ignored his own wounds to protect his fellow soldiers in the 761st Tank Battalion during World War II, is the focus of the latest graphic novel in the Association of the U.S. Army’s series on recipients of the nation’s highest award for valor.
Former Capt. Larry Taylor, who received the Medal of Honor for leading a harrowing rescue of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, died Jan. 28. He was 81.
Taylor, an Army aviator, received the nation’s highest award for valor during a Sept. 5 ceremony at the White House, more than 55 years after his heroic actions.
In June 1968 near Ap Go Cong, Vietnam, Taylor, flying an AH-1 Cobra gunship, repeatedly braved enemy fire to rescue a four-man long-range reconnaissance patrol team that was surrounded by a much larger enemy force.
Retired Col. Roger Donlon, the first person in the Vietnam War and the first Green Beret to receive the Medal of Honor, died Jan. 25. He was 89.
Donlon received the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor, for his actions in July 1964 near Nam Dong, Vietnam. During the battle, then-Capt. Donlon disregarded multiple wounds and successfully led his 12-man Green Beret team as they held off an attack by a reinforced battalion of Viet Cong fighters.
