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 ...

Chickasaw Hall of Fame inductee and Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Col. Raymond G. Harvey was honored by his adopted hometown ...

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

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 ...

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

Ryan Pitts didn’t survive COP Keating because he was invincible; he survived because, in the chaos of a fight designed to kill him, he refused to quit.

Pvt. Fitz Lee and his comrades were the last Black soldiers to receive the Medal of Honor outright until the Vietnam War. (Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and ...

Walking into the Tyler airport terminal lined with large American flags held by the Patriot Guard Riders and the Rose City Young Marines, seven Medal of Honor recipients received a hero’s welcome. The ...