He was a sharecropper’s son from Lepanto who spent the day after Christmas turning a Belgian roadside into a firing range for ...

Royce Williams of Escondido has become eligible to receive the Medal of Honor for the courage he showed during an aerial dogfight during the Korean War in which he took on seven Soviet MiGs, shooting ...

It has been confirmed that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on the 18th ...

Royce Williams, who was in a secretive dogfight with Russian fighter planes, would be eligible for the Medal of Honor upon the passage of the NDAA.

A World War II Medal of Honor recipient from southern Minnesota, whose remains were only just identified this summer, will ...

Language in the NDAA removes time limitations that prevent Williams from receiving the honor. Williams recounted the mission ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

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Eleven cadets and midshipmen who played for their service academies would go on to receive the nation's highest award for ...

A U.S. Army soldier who earned the prestigious Medal of Honor during World War II has been accounted for more than eight decades after he disappeared.

The Medal of Honor is the highest military award for bravery. One of the few living Medal of Honor recipients took the field at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday with a big ...