Born to an American father and British mother in October 1919, the then-19-year-old Munro enlisted with the U.S. Coast Guard ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

The Medal of Honor is the ... Since then, more than 3,400 Medals of Honor have been awarded to members of all DoD services and the Coast Guard. Medals of Honor are awarded sparingly and are ...

The lowest-ranking Medal of Honor recipient in the U.S. Air Force was a case in point: John Lee Levitow’s ultimate moment of truth was less attributable to enemy forces than it was to his own ...

His classmates loved him, but they might never have guessed that "Sandy" would become the first Medal of Honor recipient of World War II -- and that he fought like a Viking berserker in the process.

These figures represent Medal of Honor recipients from each conflict and branch of the military. These statistics come from the U.S. Army Center of Military History.