Flags are flying at half-mast in memory of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Corporal Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, who died last week at the age of 97. All of New Mexico was honored to have ...

FILE - Medal of Honor recipient Hiroshi Miyamura, a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Medal of Honor Museum on March 25, 2022, in ...

Hiroshi Miyamura grew up in Gallup, New Mexico, one of only a handful of Japanese Americans in the town. A teacher, unable to pronounce his first name, called him Hershey, and his friends adopted this ...

As we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we honor a man who's done incredible things in service to our country. Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura is a hero in so many ways, ...

Two American soldiers trudged across the war-torn Korean peninsula as winter bore down. To keep their minds off the cold and hunger, Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura told his new friend, an Italian kid from ...

After more than two years in a Chinese communist prison camp, Army Sgt. Hiroshi Miyamura and 19 other POWs were released at Panmunjom and taken to the nearby Freedom Village on Aug. 23, 1953. But ...

Miyamura takes his turn and proposes to Hori, expressing his desire to marry her. In the manga, the story progresses, and at the present moment, they are officially engaged. However, in the later part ...

Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura, the son of Japanese immigrants who was awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding off an attack to allow an American squad to withdraw during the Korean War, has died. The ...

When Hiroshi Miyamura was growing up in 1930s Gallup, N.M., his teacher couldn’t pronounce his first name. She nicknamed him “Hershey,” a name that stuck among classmates and later with fellow ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. — Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, the son of Japanese immigrants who was awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding off an attack to allow an American squad to withdraw during the Korean ...