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Korea
(1950 - 1953)

Recipients of the

Medal of Honor

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133 Medals of Honor Awarded

80 Army

7 Navy

  4 Air Force

42 Marines

** Indicates Posthumous Award
95 Medals of Honor (72%) were presented Posthumously

 

Recipient's Name

MOH Accredited TO:

Recipient's Name

MOH Accredited TO:

U.S. Army

Air Force

Stanley Taylor ADAMS

Olathe, KS

**George Andrew DAVIS, JR.

Lubbock, TX

**Charles H. BARKER

Pickens County, SC

**Charles Joseph LORING, JR.

Portland, ME

**Emory L. BENNETT

Cocoa, FL

**Louis Joseph SEBILLE

Chicago, IL

David Bruce BLEAK

Shelley, ID

**John S.  WALMSLEY, JR.

Baltimore, MD

**Nelson Vogel BRITTIN

Audubon, NJ

U.S. Navy

**Melvin L. BROWN

Erie, PA

Lloyd Leslie "Scooter" BURKE

Stuttgart, AR

**Edward C. "Ted" BENFOLD

Philadelphia, PA

**Tony K BURRIS

Blanchard, OK

William Richard CHARETTE

Ludington, MI

**Cornelius H. CHARLTON

Bronx County, NY

**Richard David DEWERT

Taunton, MA

**Gilbert Georgie COLLIER

Tichnor, AR

**Francis Colton HAMMOND

Alexandria, VA

**John Walton COLLIER

Worthington, KY

Thomas Jerome HUDNER, JR.

Fall River, MA

**Samuel Streit COURSEN

Madison, NJ

**John Edward KILMER

Houston, TX

**Gordon Maynard CRAIG

Brockton, MA

**John Kelvin KOELSCH

Los Angeles, CA

Jerry Kirt CRUMP

Forest City, NC

U.S. Marine Corps

William Frishe DEAN, SR.

California

**Reginald Benjamin DESIDERIO

Gilroy, CA

**Charles Gene ABRELL

Terre Haute, IN

Carl Henry DODD

Kenvir, KY

William Earl BARBER

West Liberty, KY

**Ray E. DUKE

Whitwell, TN

**William Bernard BAUGH

Harrison, OH

**Junior Dean EDWARDS

Indianola, IA

Hector Albert CAFFERATA, JR.

Dover, NJ

**John ESSEBAGGER, JR.

Holland, MI

**David Bernard CHAMPAGNE

Wakefield, RI

**Don Carlos FAITH, JR.

Washington, IN

**Stanley R. CHRISTIANSON

Mindoro, WI

**Charles GEORGE

Whittier, NC

Henry Alfred COMMISKEY, SR.

Hattiesburg, MS

**Charles L. GILLILAND

Yellville, AR

**Jack Arden DAVENPORT

Mission, KS

**Clair GOODBLOOD

Burnham, ME

Raymond Gilbert DAVIS

Atlanta, GA

**Lester HAMMOND, JR.

Quincy, IL

Duane Edgar DEWEY

Muskegon, MI

**Melvin O. HANDRICH

Manawa, WI

**Fernando Luis GARCIA

San Jaun, P Rico

**Jack G. HANSON

Galveston, TX

**Edward GOMEZ

Omaha, NE

**Lee Ross HARTELL

Danbury, CT

**Ambrosio GUILLEN

El Paso, TX

Raymond HARVEY

Pasadena, CA

**James Edmund JOHNSON

Washington, DC

**Frederick F. HENRY

Clinton, OK

**John Doran KELLY

Homestead, PA

Rodolfo Perez HERNANDEZ

Fowler, CA

**Jack William KELSO

Caruthers, CA

Einar Harold INGMAN, JR.

West Bend, WI

Robert Sidney KENNEMORE

Greenville, SC

**William R. JECELIN

Baltimore, MD

**Herbert A. LITTLETON

Nampa, ID

**Mack A. JORDAN

Collins, MS

**Baldomero LOPEZ

Tampa, FL

**Billie Gene KANELL

Poplar Bluff, MO

**Daniel Paul MATTHEWS

Van Nuys, CA

**Loren R. KAUFMAN

The Dalles, OR

**Frederick W. MAUSERT, III

Dresher, PA

**Keeble, Woodrow Wilson

Wahpeton, ND

Alford Lee MCLAUGHLIN

Leeds, AL

**Noah Odell KNIGHT

Jefferson, SC

**Frank Nicias MITCHELL

Roaring Springs, TX

Ernest Richard KOUMA

Dwight, NE

**Walter Carleton MONEGAN

Seattle, WA

**Edward C. KRZYZOWSKI

Cicero, IL

**Whitt Lloyd MORELAND

Austin, TX

**Darwin K. KYLE

Racine, WV

Raymond Gerald MURPHY

Pueblo, CO

Hubert Louis LEE

Leland, MS

Reginald Rodney MYERS

Boise, ID

**George Dalton LIBBY

Waterbury, CT

**Eugene Arnold OBREGON

Los Angeles, CA

**Charles Richard LONG

Kansas City, MO

George Herman O'BRIEN, JR.

Big Spring, TX

**William Franklin LYELL

Old Hickory, TN

**Lee Hugh PHILLIPS

Ben Hill, GA

**Benito MARTINEZ

Fort Hancock, TX

**James Irsley POYNTER

Downey, CA

**Robert Milton MCGOVERN

Washington, DC

**George Henry RAMER

Lewisburg, PA

**Leroy A. MENDONCA

Honolulu, HI

**Robert Dale REEM

Elizabethtown, PA

Lewis Lee "Red" MILLETT

Mechanic Falls, ME

**William Edward SHUCH, JR.

Cumberland, MD

Hiroshi MIYAMURA

Gallup, NM

Robert Ernest SIMANEK

Detroit, MI

Ola Lee MIZE

Gadsden, AL

Carl Leonard SITTER

Pueblo, CO

**Donald Raymond MOYER

Keego Harbor, MI

**Sherrod E.  SKINNER, JR.

East Lansing, MI

**Joseph R. OUELLETTE

Lowell, MA

Archie VAN WINKLE

Arlington, WA

**John Upshur Dennis PAGE

St. Paul, MN

**Joseph VITTORI

Beverly, MA

**Charles F. PENDLETON

Fort Worth, TX

**Lewis George WATKINS

Seneca, SC

**Herbert K PILILAAU

Oahu, HI

Harold E. "Speedy" WILSON

Birmingham, AL

John Albert PITTMAN

Carrollton, MS

**William Gordon WINDRICH

Hammond, IN

**Ralph Eugene POMEROY

Quinwood, WV

   

**Donn F. PORTER

Baltimore, MD

**Mitchell RED CLOUD, JR.

Merrillan, WI

Joseph Charles RODRIGUEZ

San Bernardino, CA

Ronald Eugene ROSSER

Crooksville, OH

Tibor RUBIN

New York, NY

**Dan D. SCHOONOVER

Boise, ID

Edward R. SCHOWALTER, JR.

Metairie, LA

**Richard Thomas SHEA, JR.

Portsmouth, VA

**William S. SITMAN

Bellwood, PA

**David Monroe SMITH

Livingston, KY

**Clifton T. SPEICHER

Gray, PA

James Lamar STONE

Houston, TX

**Luther H. STORY

Georgia

**Jerome A. SUDUT

Wisconsin

**William Henry THOMPSON

Bronx County, NY

**Charles William TURNER

Massachusetts

**Travis E. WATKINS

Texas

Ernest Edison WEST

Wurtland, KY

Benjamin F. WILSON

Vashon, WA

**Richard G. WILSON

Cape Girardeau, MO

**Bryant Homer WOMACK

Mill Spring, NC

**Robert Harley YOUNG

Vallejo, CA

 

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