Recipient: Daniel Inouye Branch: U.S. Army Combat: World War II Daniel Ken Inouye was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on September 7, 1924. He was known
Born: July 16, 1916 Hometown: Fort Worth, TX Died: October 26, 1944 Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX Born on July 16, 1916, Horace S.
Pilot Jay Zeamer and bombardier Joseph Sarnoski served together in the 43rd Bomb Group in WWII. Friends before the war, they were reunited in the SW Pacific in 1942 and each received the Medal of Honor for a photo-mapping mission of Bougainville Island on June 16, 1943
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation (NMOHMF), in partnership with the National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM) in Pensacola, Florida, and the Air Zoo Aerospace
During the opening chapters of World War II in the Pacific Theater, Navy and Marine Corps aviators were thrust into some of the most perilous and challenging air actions in American history. Flying the Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter, eight different American fighter aces would go on to earn the Medal of Honor – our nation’s highest decoration for military combat. No other fixed-wing, single-engined aircraft has more Medal of Honor actions associated with it than the Wildcat.
Date of Action: October 1942-January 1943 Squadron: Marine Fighting Squadron 121 (VMF-121) Location: Over and Near Guadalcanal Island Joe Foss was a United States Marine Corps
Date of Action: April 7, 1943 Squadron: Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221) Location: Near Guadalcanal Island James “Zeke” Swett, was commissioned as a Marine Corps
Date of Action: January 31, 1943 Squadron: Marine Fighting Squadron 112 (VMF-112) Location: Near Kolombangara Island Commissioned in April of 1942, Jefferson De Blanc had
Date of Action: October 16, 1942 Squadron: Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-212) Location: Near Guadalcanal Island Harold “Joe” Bauer graduated from the United States Naval
Date of Action: February 20, 1942 Squadron: Fighting Squadron 3 (VF-3), USS Lexington (CV-2) Location: Near New Britain Island Edward O’Hare grew up in an
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