Recipients

Kenneth Gradle received a Silver Star for actions during the first American counteroffensive in the Pacific in April 1942, a week before the Doolittle Raid…

Donald Strother was killed in action five days after his DSC mission, on February 13, 1942. Strother Field in Cowley County, Kansas, is named in…

Richard Jaccard was subsequently declared Missing in Action after an air mission on September 16, 1943.

Fifteen planes of Torpedo Squadron 8 took off from the U.S.S. Hornet on June 4, carrying 30 officers and enlisted gunners. All were shot down…

Ensign Cook survived the Air Battle of Midway, but was subsequently listed as Missing in Action in a later engagement on October 26, 1942.