Medal of Honor Recipient Articles

Medal of Honor: Harold Glenn Epperson – World War II, June 25, 1944

Epperson's gun emplacement became a focal point of the attack. With cool determination and ferocious resolve, he fired round after round into the onrushing enemy, cutting down wave after wave of infiltrators and buying precious seconds for his battalion.

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Medal of Honor: John D. Kelly – World War II, June 25, 1944

Twice more, Kelly ascended the exposed slope with explosives under intense fire, silencing a second and then a third German position. His bravery shattered the enemy defense and inspired his fellow soldiers to overrun the fort.

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Medal of Honor: Emory L. Bennett – Korean War, June 24, 1951

At the heart of this chaos stood 21-year-old Private First Class Emory Bennett of Cocoa, Florida—a young man raised on the banks of the Indian River, a crack shot, and now a one-man bulwark against disaster.

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Medal of Honor: David R. Kingsley – Ploesti Raid, June 23, 1944

Lagging behind and descending fast, the crippled bomber was swarmed by German Me-109 fighters. Inside, the tail gunner lay bleeding badly from shrapnel wounds. Kingsley rushed aft, administered lifesaving first aid, and kept the gunner conscious.

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Medal of Honor: John E. Butts – Normandy, June 14–23, 1944

June 23 near Flottemanville-Hague. Before them rose a heavily defended hill bristling with tanks, pillboxes, and machine guns—fortified by artillery and mortars. The hill had to fall, and he knew it.

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Medal of Honor: Jared C. Monti – War in Afghanistan, June 21, 2006

A soldier lay wounded out in the open, caught between the oncoming enemy and the patrol’s rocky cover. Monti didn’t hesitate. He dashed into the open, bullets slapping the earth around him.

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Medal of Honor: Edgar L. McWethy Jr. – Vietnam War, June 21, 1967

Then came another call—a soldier was down across open terrain. McWethy moved again without hesitation. A sniper’s bullet struck him in the head, knocking him flat.