Although minor in size, the battle at Firebase Maureen was nonetheless major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of ...

Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...

From the Vietnam War, both Capt ... Heroes who all deserve our nation's highest and oldest military recognition, the Medal of Honor." Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1930, Orig enlisted in the ...

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 ...

The rest of the country will now, too, as Nelson and Kenneth David, who also fought in the Vietnam War, are the latest recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for ...

Five Korean War veterans, including Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously on Jan. 3.

WASHINGTON — One soldier from North Carolina, shielding a wounded comrade he'd pulled from a downed helicopter in Vietnam ... military commendations. Efforts in the 1990s to review such awards ...

Cmdr. Clyde Lassen piloted a dangerous rescue mission in 1968 to save two Naval aviators shot down in the jungle ...

and Kenneth Kays were awarded Medals of Honor for their actions at the battle of Firebase Maureen during the Vietnam War. (Henry Villarama/U.S. Army) For every battle in the Vietnam War ...