Recipients

John Wheeler

Captured at the fall of Bataan, John Wheeler died on January 26, 1945 aboard the Japanese hell ship, Brazil Maru, due to exposure, starvation, and…
Russell Wilson

Russell Wilson graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1928. The Pilot of the B-17 in which Colonel Wilson was flying…
Herbert Woehl
Harry Woliansky
John Wood

John Wood graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1912. He retired with disability in 1946 as a U.S. Army Major…
Sidney Wooten

Sidney Wooten graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1930. He retired in 1965 as a U.S. Army Major General.
Elery Zehner

Elery Zehner graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1937. So his men could always easily find him on the battlefield,…
Edwin Messinger

Edwin Messinger graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1931. He earned his first Distinguished Service Cross in Korea on February…
Salvador Abcede
John Achille
Hersel Adams
John Adams

John Adams was killed when the Germans bombed the Hospital ship St. David at Anzio Harbor on January 24, 1944.