Congressional Medal of Honor Society

685 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.

Thomas J. Reeves

World War II

1941 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, USA

James Richmond

U.S. Civil War

1863 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Milton E. Ricketts

World War II

1942 - Coral Sea

Paul F. Riordan

World War II

1944 - near Cassino, Italy

Ruben Rivers

World War II

1944 - Guebling, France

Charles H. Roan

World War II

1944 - Peleliu Island, Palau Islands

Anund C. Roark

Vietnam War

1968 - Kontum Province, Republic of Vietnam

Harold W. Roberts

World War I

1918 - Montrebeau Woods, France

Samuel Robertson

U.S. Civil War

1862 - Georgia, USA

James E. Robinson Jr.

World War II

1945 - near Untergriesheim, Germany

Charles M. Rockefeller

U.S. Civil War

1865 - Fort Blakely, Alabama, USA

Henry Rodenburg

Indian Campaigns

1876 - Cedar Creek, etc., Montana, USA

Robert E. Roeder

World War II

1944 - Mount Battaglia, Italy

Albert H. Rooks

World War II

1942 - from Darwin to Koepang, Timor, Netherlands East Indies

Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

World War II

1944 - Normandy Invasion, France

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