Although minor in size, the battle at Firebase Maureen was nonetheless major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of ...
Friends and family, including 85 members of the Army West Point Swim Team, three Medal of Honor recipients and the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), were in ...
Although minor in size, it was nonetheless major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of Honor recipients ... 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in January 1970.
Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...
When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. "Ben" Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited Normandy with fellow veterans in June 2024 to remember that day. On Tuesday ...
in Vietnam’s Thua Thien Province while serving with the 101st Airborne. “Today we award these individuals a Medal of Honor, ” Biden said. “We can’t stop here. Together as a nation ...
President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority soldiers from the Korean War who may have been denied the nation's highest decoration for valor by a 1950s ...
He served as a radio-telephone operator with Company D, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division ... in Vietnam also received the Medal of Honor on Friday — Capt.
David is the second soldier from the platoon to receive the Medal of Honor. Pfc. Kenneth Kays of the 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division received the award in 1973 for his actions on ...