Purple Heart. Major Everett Parker Pope (July 16, 1919 - July 16, 2009) was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his conspicuous gallantry on Peleliu in September 1944 while leading his men in an assault on a strategic hill, and for holding it, with rocks and bare fists when ammunition ran low, against Japanese suicide
The President of the United States, in the name of Congress, awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to the Nation's bravest Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guard personnel, since the decoration's creation in 1861!
During World War I, which lasted from 1914 until 1918, there were only 126 people who received the Medal of Honor. In the four years of U.S. involvement in World War II, there were 472 recipients, but in the Vietnam War, which lasted for twenty years, there were only 261.
Herbert Joseph Thomas. Herbert Thomas, Class of 1941, received the Medal of Honor for action on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific in World War II while a Marine Corps sergeant. Through dense jungle and severe machine gun fire, Thomas led his men in destroying two enemy machine gun positions. Halted by a third enemy machine gun, he
During this conflict 464 United States military personnel received the Medal of Honor, 266 of them posthumously. Seventeen of these were Japanese-Americans fighting in both Europe and the Pacific. Additionally, the only recipient for the United States Coast Guard received the Medal for his actions during this war.
New book highlights unit with the most WWII Medals of Honor in Europe. The U.S. 3rd Infantry Division arriving at the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's home, on May 4, 1945. (Eric Schwab/AFP via Getty)
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