Medal of Honor Recipient Articles

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.

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Medal of Honor: Arthur J. Forrest – World War I – November 1, 1918

In the final days of the Great War, Sergeant Arthur J. Forrest crawled alone toward six roaring German machine guns — and then charged straight through them to save his men.

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Medal of Honor: James E. Williams – Vietnam War – October 31, 1966

On a moonless night in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Boatswain’s Mate James E. Williams turned two river patrol boats into a one-man war—charging into the darkness against impossible odds and wiping out an entire enemy fleet.

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Medal of Honor: Michael E. Thornton – Vietnam War – October 31, 1972

When a SEAL mission in Vietnam went catastrophically wrong, Petty Officer Michael Thornton refused to leave a fallen comrade behind—fighting through gunfire, dragging his wounded commander two miles to the sea, and swimming them both to survival.