Henry Eugene Erwin Sr. (May 8, 1921 – January 16, 2002) was a United States Army Air Forces airman and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor —for his actions in World War II. He earned the award as a staff sergeant and radio operator aboard a B-29 Superfortress in the Asia-Pacific theater.
In May 1996 the study was completed under the title, The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II. Staff Sergeant Edward Allen Carter Jr. of Los Angeles, California was identified and recommended for honors. January 10, 1997, Sergeant Carter was exhumed from the national cemetery and honored the next day in Los Angeles.
Medal of Honor Action Place: Peleliu Island, Palau Islands Citation For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as commanding officer of Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division, during action against enemy Japanese forces on Peleliu Island, Palau Group on
Medal of Honor Action Place: Climbach, France Citation For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Then Lieutenant Charles L. Thomas distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 14 December 1944.
For this, Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest award for gallantry in action. By the end of World War II, Murphy had become one of the nation's most-decorated soldiers, earning an unparalleled 28 medals (including three from France and one from Belgium).
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Pawnee and Oklahoma City are the only Oklahoma communities to produce two Medal of Honor recipients (Maj. Kenneth Bailey and Comdr. Ernest Edwin Evans, Pawnee; and S.Sgt. Ruben Rivers and PFC Manuel Perez, Jr., Oklahoma City). Native-born Oklahomans awarded the Medal of Honor include SFC Tony K. Burris of Blanchard, who died on Heartbreak Ridge

Medal of Honor Action Place: Malmedy, Belgium Citation He was an automatic rifleman with the 3d Platoon defending a strongpoint near Malmedy, Belgium, on 21 December 1944, when the enemy launched a powerful attack. Daniel Judson Callaghan. For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty during action against enemy Japanese forces off Savo Island on the night of 12 to 13 November 1942. Although outbalanced in strength and numbers by a desperate and determined enemy, Rear Adm. Callaghan, with ingenious tactical skill Hershel W. “Woody” Williams was a 21-year-old Marine Corps corporal when he watched from the bloodied, ashy beaches of Iwo Jima as the Stars and Stripes rose atop Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945. Mitchell Paige. Mitchell Paige (Mihajlo Pejić) (August 31, 1918 – November 15, 2003) was an American-Serbian retired United States Marine Corps colonel who received the nation's highest military decoration for valor in combat, the Medal of Honor, during World War II . On October 26, 1942, after thirty-three Marines in his machine gun platoon World War II. Battle of Midway †. Awards. Medal of Honor. Captain Richard Eugene Fleming (November 2, 1917 – June 5, 1942) was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism in World War II during the Battle of Midway. Fleming piloted a Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bomber in an attack on the Japanese cruiser Mikuma .

Died: June 11, 2002, Muskogee, OK, United States. Buried: Fort Gibson National Cemetery (MH) (20-963), Fort Gibson, OK, United States. Location of Medal: Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK. U.S. Army First Lieutenant Jack Cleveland Montgomery was presented the Medal of Honor for military valor during World War II.

One of them was Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the son of U.S. President and Medal of Honor Recipient Theodore Roosevelt. Here is his story. ***** Normandy, June 6, 1944: The Only General on the Beach. By Kris Cotariu Harper, EdD. Medal of Honor Recipient Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
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Died: April 7, 1945, Weser River Valley near Lippoldsberg, Germany. Buried: A.B.M.C. Cemetery (MH) (P-9-9), Margraten, Netherlands. Location of Medal: Black Archives of Mid-America, Kansas City, MO. U.S. Army Private First Class Willy F James Jr. was posthumously presented the Medal of Honor for military valor during World War II.
Medal of Honor Action Place: Southwest Pacific Citation For distinguished gallantry and valor above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Growler during her fourth war patrol in the southwest Pacific from 10 January to 7 February 1943.

The National WWII Museum, The Walter D. Ehlers Collection, OH.0677. When American troops landed on Omaha beach on June 6, 1944, most of them had not been in combat. The exception was most of the GIs in the 1st Infantry Division, men like Walt Ehlers. Born in Junction City, Kansas, in 1921, Ehlers lived with his grandfather while he was

The oldest current living Medal of Honor recipient is a former Army soldier who received the medal in recognition of his actions in World War II. Born Oct. 26, 1920, Maxwell served as a technician
Conflict/Era: World War II; Unit/Command: Company C, 603d Tank Destroyer Battalion; Military Service Branch: U.S. Army; Medal of Honor Action Date: January 15, 1945; Medal of Honor Action Place: near Arloncourt, Belgium
Richard Keith Sorenson (August 28, 1924 – October 9, 2004) was a United States Marine who, as a private, received the Medal of Honor during World War II for his heroism during the Marine landing on Kwajalein Atoll on the night of February 1–2, 1944. He threw himself on a Japanese grenade that was part of US munitions captured during the OtcWg8e.