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.

John H. Wickersham

World War I

1918 - near Limey

Jacob Widmer

Indian Campaigns

1879 - Milk River, Colorado, USA

Thomas W. Wigle

World War II

1944 - Monte Frassino, Italy

Hilliard A. Wilbanks

Vietnam War

1967 - near Dalat, Republic of Vietnam

James Wiley

U.S. Civil War

1863 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Edward G. Wilkin

World War II

1945 - Siegfried Line, Germany

Raymond H. Wilkins

World War II

1943 - near Rabaul, New Britain Island, New Britain

Walter J. Will

World War II

1945 - near Eisern, Germany

Louis E. Willett

Vietnam War

1967 - Kontum Province, Republic of Vietnam

Dewayne T. Williams

Vietnam War

1968 - Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam

Jack Williams

World War II

1945 - Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands

John H. Willis

World War II

1945 - Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands

Alfred L. Wilson

World War II

1944 - near Bezange la Petite, France

Robert L. Wilson

World War II

1944 - Tinian Island, Mariana Islands

Richard G. Wilson

Korean War

1950 - near Opari, Korea

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