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Congressional Medal of Honor Society

681 Medal of Honor Recipients who have Fallen in Service (KIA, Wounds, Illness)

Many Medal of Honor Recipients have died while in service. Some died during the moment of valor that resulting in the Medal of Honor. Others died later, during combat actions, as prisoners of war, or fell due to wounds or illness. We remember them below.

Melvin E. Newlin

Vietnam War

1967 - Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam

Alfred B. Nietzel

World War II

1944 - Heistern, Germany

Alexander R. Nininger Jr.

World War II

1942 - near Abucay, Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands

Joe M. Nishimoto

World War II

1944 - near La Houssiere, France

Thomas P. Noonan Jr.

Vietnam War

1969 - near Vandergrift Combat Base, A Shau Valley, Republic of Vietnam

William J. O'Brien

World War II

1944 - Saipan, Marianas Islands

Edward Henry "butch" O'Hare

World War II

1942 - South Pacific

Thomas E. O'Shea

World War I

1918 - near Le Catelet, France

Eugene A. Obregon

Korean War

1950 - Seoul, Korea

Milton L. Olive III

Vietnam War

1965 - Phu Cuong, Republic of Vietnam

Kenneth L. Olson

Vietnam War

1968 - Republic of Vietnam

Arlo L. Olson

World War II

1943 - crossing of the Volturno River, Italy

Truman O. Olson

World War II

1944 - near Cisterna di Littoria, Italy

Weedon E. Osborne

World War I

1918 - Bouresches, France

Kazuo Otani

World War II

1944 - near Pieve Di S. Luce, Italy

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