Bong's ability as a fighter pilot was recognized at training in northern California.

Bong's first operational assignment was to the 49th Fighter Squadron ( FS ), 14th Fighter Group at Hamilton Field, California, where he transitioned into the twin-engine P-38 Lightning.

Inside one of these is Bing and Bong's home, decorated in a steampunk idiom, with much brass work.

Director Quentin Tarantino named it, along with Bong's The Host, as one of his Top 20 favorite movies since 1992.

Bong's brother Carl ( who wrote his biography ) questions the validity of reported circumstance that Bong repeated the same mistake so soon after mentioning it to another pilot.

Housed in a structure intended to resemble an aircraft hangar, it contains a museum, a film screening room, and a P-38 Lightning restored to resemble Bong's plane.

McGuire desperately wanted to pass Major Richard Bong's score of 40 kills.

Sergeant Mike Donaldson, Congressional Medal of Honor soldier, was one of them.

Adam stared at the door and remembered that Simms Purdew had been awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Antietam.

* 1958 – Randy Shughart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1993 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1960 – Gary Gordon, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1993 )

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* German Medal of Honor ( 1996 )

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Lower, American Medal of Honor recipient

* 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.

* 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

* 1922 – Junior J. Spurrier, American Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1984 )

* 1887 – Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1964 )

The Ellis Island Medal of Honor is awarded annually at ceremonies on the island.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.

In 1917 Armstrong was the first recipient of the IRE's, now IEEE Medal of Honor.

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* 1846 – Julian Scott, American artist and American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1901 )

* Fields Medal citation at the website of the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians held in Beijing.

His Medal of Honor citation reads:

*: On 17 May 2012 Albanian President, Bamir Topi awarded Rivera the " Medal of Gratitude " with the citation: " With profound gratitude and esteem, personality and prominent publicist, expensive friend of the Albanians, who made his cause the American public consciousness, and beyond, monstrous crime was making the Serb military machine, in 1999, against the Kosovo Albanian civilian population, thus revealing it as ethnic cleansing and genocide ".

Wainwright's Medal of Honor citation reads:

By the end of the war he received a promotion to colonel, the Distinguished Service Cross and two Purple Hearts ( the full text of his Medal of Honor citation can be found further below ).

It formed a major part of the citation when he was awarded the Rumford Medal by the Royal Society in 1984.

On June 26, 1902 or July 8, 1902, Porter received the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Chickamauga as detailed in the citation noted below.

Stockdale's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

On 16 October 1946, the former Secretary of War, the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, presented the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Spruance, with citation as follows:

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For this action, Prince was awarded the Military Medal, his citation reading ( in part ) " Sergeant Prince's courage and utter disregard for personal safety were an inspiration to his fellows and a marked credit to his unit.

The United States Code citation for the POW Medal statute is.

The legal citation for the POW Medal also remained unchanged, and did not reference the 1989 amendment.

The citation for the Army Distinguished Service Medal states: The citation for the Navy Distinguished Service Medal states:

Fleming's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

His Medal of Honor citation reads:

In May 2005, the first Commandant of BALTDEFCOL was awarded with the St Germain Gold Medal of the Danish Military Society, the citation also mentioning his initiative and work with the establishment and running of the college.

Peterson's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

The Navy Distinguished Service Medal citation read:

The Army Distinguished Service Medal citation read:

His Medal of Honor citation reads: