Medal of Honor/Catalogs
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Confirmed recipients, Civil War
Spanish-American War
- Theodore Roosevelt [r]: (1858-1919), Twenty-sixth President of the United States, naturalist, historian, political reformer, and Progressive Era politician. [e]
Recipients, World War I
Recipients, World War II
- Daniel Inouye [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Hawaii (U.S. state)); Medal of Honor recipient for WWII service with 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Executive board, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus [e]
- Douglas MacArthur [r]: Senior U.S. Army commander in the Second World War, head of the Occupation of Japan, holder of the highest rank and highest honor for valor in the Army, yet relieved of command for insubordination [e]
- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. [r]: Brigadier general, United States Army Reserve, assistant commander of the 4th Infantry Division, who received the Medal of Honor for valor as the only general to go ashore with the first U.S. amphibious assault wave of the "D-Day" invasion at the Battle of Normandy; son of President Theodore Roosevelt [e]
- Ben Salomon [r]: A United States Army dental officer, who was killed in action protecting a U.S. military hospital, during the Battle of Saipan from being overrun by Japanese troops; received a long-posthumous Medal of Honor after extensive review and special legislation [e]
- David Shoup [r]: Add brief definition or description
Efforts to award for WWII
- Guy Gabaldon [r]: A U.S. Marine who, at the Battle of Saipan, used the colloquial Japanese learned in his teens to convince 1,500 Japanese troops and civilians both to surrender and not to commit suicide [e]
Recipients, Korean War
Recipients, Vietnam period
- William Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lewis Albanese [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Day [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bernard Fisher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Kerrey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lloyd McGonagle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Norris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Pitsenbarger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Thornton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fred Zabitosky [r]: United States Army Special Forces and MACV-SOG non-commissioned officer, a Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam War and an expert on special reconnaissance [e]
Recipients, Somalia
- Gary Gordon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Randall Shughart [r]: Add brief definition or description