A collection of rare medals belonging to a Battle ... Major Merton entered World War II with the British Expeditionary Force ...

A mess attendant on duty during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor saved lives and took a position to defend the ship, and his ...

Osceola “Ozzie” Fletcher was wounded during World War II's Battle of ... inequalities in the United States at that time," Fletcher never received his Purple Heart, a medal given to military ...

In the case of William Shemin, World War I presented ... On June 2, 2015, his daughter, Elsie Shemin-Roth stood before President Barack Obama in the White House to receive his Medal of Honor ...

(Courtesy National Medal of Honor Museum) Since its inception in 1861 during the American Civil War, the Medal of Honor has been awarded to less than 4,000 men and one woman among the 40 million ...