U.S. Army Center of Military History Full-text Listings of Medal of Honor Citations The President, in the name of Congress, has awarded more than 3, 400 Medals of Honor to our nation's bravest Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen since the decoration's creation in 1861. For years, the citations highlighting these acts of bravery and heroism resided in dusty archives and only ...

A complete and official catalog of the 242 United States Medal of Honor Citations issued during the Vietnam War. Some citations contain photographs of the recipient ...