Medal of Honor Recipient Articles

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.

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Medal of Honor: John Otto Siegel – Naval Rescue, World War I – November 1, 1918

When the schooner Hjeltenaes became a floating inferno, Boatswain’s Mate John Otto Siegel charged straight into the flames — again and again — refusing to quit until every man was safe.

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Medal of Honor: Harold A. Furlong – World War I – November 1, 1918

Under a hail of German machine-gun fire in the Bois-de-Bantheville, Lieutenant Harold Furlong charged forward alone — and silenced death itself, one gun at a time.