On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

Craig’s response was to signal his men back to the modest cover of the hill crest while he advanced, firing his carbine to ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

More than 24,000 people have signed the Change.org petition requesting that the museum add Chapman’s story to approximately ...

The Arlington museum’s exhibits restarted a dispute over two Medal of Honor stories. Here’s how officials picked which heroes to spotlight.

Lt. j.g. John Koelsch was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism as a rescue helicopter pilot during the Korean War. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command) During the Korean War ...

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John Levitow, shown here in 1996, was the first enlisted airman to receive the Medal of Honor ... His ambitions progressed from civil engineering to the U.S. Navy and finally, on June 6, 1966 ...