Notes of Valor

“An Epic of Courage”: Jay Zeamer and Joseph Sarnoski

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

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Cashe, Celiz & Plumlee

In a ceremony at the White House on December 16, 2021, three Medals of Honor were awarded to soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Pearl Harbor, 80 Years Later

The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, instantaneously plunged thousands of young American servicemen into the chaos and violence of

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USS Vestal (AR-4)

When we think of the December 7, 1941 surprise attack by Japanese Navy planes on American ships at Pearl Harbor, most people can recall the

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