Congressional Medal of Honor Society

686 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.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr

World War II

1944 - Normandy Invasion, France

Marion A. Ross

U.S. Civil War

1862 - Georgia, USA

Euripides Rubio

Vietnam War

1966 - Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam

Donald J. Ruhl

World War II

1945 - Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands

Unknown Soldier of Rumania

World War I

Leslie H. Sabo Jr

Vietnam War

1970 - Se San, Cambodia

Joseph J. Sadowski

World War II

1944 - Valhey, France

Benjamin L. Salomon

World War II

1944 - Saipan, Saipan, Marianas Islands

Hector Santiago-Colon

Vietnam War

1968 - Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam

Ruppert L. Sargent

Vietnam War

1967 - Hau Nghia Province, Republic of Vietnam

Joseph R. Sarnoski

World War II

1943 - over Buka area, Solomon Islands

William Sawelson

World War I

1918 - Grand-Pre, France

Foster J. Sayers

World War II

1944 - near Thionville, France

Dan D. Schoonover

Korean War

1953 - Pork Chop Hill, near Sokkogae

Albert E. Schwab

World War II

1945 - Okinawa Shima, Ryukyu Islands

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