Medal of Honor > Catalogs
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Confirmed recipients, Civil War
Spanish-American War
- Theodore Roosevelt [r]: (1858-1919), Twenty-sixth President of the United States, naturalist, historian, political reformer, and Progressive Era politician. [e]
Recipients, World War I
Recipients, World War II
- Daniel Inouye [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Hawaii); Medal of Honor recipient for WWII service with 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Executive board, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus [e]
- Douglas MacArthur [r]: Senior U.S. Army commander in the Second World War, head of the Occupation of Japan, holder of the highest rank and highest honor for valor in the Army, yet relieved of command for insubordination [e]
- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ben Salomon [r]: A United States Army dental officer, who was killed in action protecting a U.S. military hospital, during the Battle of Saipan from being overrun by Japanese troops; received a long-posthumous Medal of Honor after extensive review and special legislation [e]
- David Shoup [r]: A U.S. Marine Corps general and the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps (1960-1963); received the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Tarawa [e]
Efforts to award for WWII
- Guy Gabaldon [r]: A U.S. Marine who, at the Battle of Saipan, used the colloquial Japanese learned in his teens to convince 1,500 Japanese troops and civilians both to surrender and not to commit suicide [e]
Recipients, Korean War
Recipients, Vietnam period
Recipients, Somalia
- Gary Gordon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Randall Shughart [r]: Add brief definition or description
