In 1917, an Army review board rescinded the Medal of Honor that had been awarded to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, an Army surgeon and former prisoner of war, more than half a century earlier. Walker ...

The US Navy has officially changed the name of its ship honoring slain gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson in commemoration of the WWII Medal of Honor recipient.

President Joe Biden noted at a Dec. 16, 2021, White House ceremony that Cashe’s family had been waiting 16 years for the moment when he would finally be awarded the Medal of Honor, and Biden ...

Somehow, He Became a Medal of Honor Recipient. Arrmy Pfc. Charles Barger was presented with the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on Oct. 31, 1918. (Wikimedia Commons) ...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a Civil War surgeon and the only woman ever awarded the Medal. More than 3,500 Medals of Honor have been awarded as of 2024.

The Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center announces actor and veterans advocate Gary Sinise will bring the Lt. Dan Band to the Patriot Gala, the capstone event during the 2025 Medal of ...

He received his Medal of Honor while he was in the hospital on June 23, 1899, at Fort Bliss, Texas, and was medically discharged from the Army on July 5, 1899.

Vietnam War veteran Jim McCloughan, a Medal of Honor recipient, to speak at the Army's 250th birthday ball in Detroit. Years later, the Army medic and coach received a letter from a stranger that ...

George DeMass, a historian for Walker's hometown of Oswego, N.Y., where her Medal of Honor remains on display, said he suspected she might enjoy, on some level, the furor over a base bearing her name.