Medal of Honor Recipient Articles

Medal of Honor: Robert E. Femoyer – World War II (Air Mission) – November 2, 1944

Bleeding out and refusing morphine so he could stay conscious, 2nd Lt. Robert Femoyer guided his crippled B-17 through enemy skies for two and a half hours — saving his crew before taking his last breath over England.

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Medal of Honor: Cecil H. Bolton – World War II – November 2, 1944

Wounded, soaked, and half-frozen in a Dutch canal, 1st Lt. Cecil Bolton kept crawling toward the guns — not away from them — leading two men on a mission that turned the tide of a brutal night fight.

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Medal of Honor: Charles Calvin Rogers – Vietnam War – November 1, 1968

When the perimeter broke and fire rained down, Lt. Col. Charles Rogers didn’t hide behind sandbags — he led the counterattack, bleeding, burning, and unbreakable.

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Medal of Honor: Emil Joseph Kapaun – Korean War – November 1–2, 1950

He walked through fire not to fight, but to save — and chose captivity over freedom so no wounded man would face it alone.

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Medal of Honor: Robert Allen Owens – Bougainville, World War II – November 1, 1943

In the chaos of the Bougainville landings, one Marine charged straight into the muzzle of a Japanese 75mm gun — and silenced it from the inside.

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Medal of Honor: Robert M. Hanson – Bougainville & New Britain, World War II – November 1, 1943 & January 24, 1944

Over Bougainville and New Britain, Marine ace Robert M. Hanson tore through Japanese skies like a man possessed — a lone fighter who downed 25 enemy planes before vanishing into legend.

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Medal of Honor: Anthony Casamento – Guadalcanal, World War II – November 1, 1942

Pinned down on a blood-soaked ridge at Guadalcanal, Corporal Anthony Casamento refused to fall back — manning his machine gun alone, bleeding, and surrounded, he held the line until reinforcements arrived.