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.

Maximo Yabes

Vietnam War

1967 - near Phu Hoa Dong, Republic of Vietnam

Rodney J. Yano

Vietnam War

1969 - near Bien Hao, Republic of Vietnam

Gordon D. Yntema

Vietnam War

1968 - near Thong Binh, Republic of Vietnam

Marvin R. Young

Vietnam War

1968 - near Ben Cui, Republic of Vietnam

Robert H. Young

Korean War

1950 - north of Kaesong, Korea

Cassin Young

World War II

1941 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, USA

Rodger W. Young

World War II

1943 - New Georgia

John P. Yount

Indian Campaigns

1871 - Whetstone Mountains, Arizona Territory, USA

Herman Ziegner

Indian Campaigns

1890 - Wounded Knee Creek and White Clay Creek, South Dakota, USA

Raymond Zussman

World War II

1944 - Noroy le Bourg, France

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