3 accounts found for “Medal of Honor”
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
At 56 years old, arthritic, and walking with a wooden cane, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. — son of the 26th President — was the only general officer ...
442nd Regimental Combat Team; Senator Daniel Inouye (Company E)
While their families were confined in American internment camps under Executive Order 9066, Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team becam...
Corporal Desmond T. Doss, Company B, 307th Infantry Regiment
Corporal Desmond Doss refused to carry a weapon on religious grounds, was assigned to a combat unit anyway, and then — over the course of one nightmarish battle...