Recipients

Thomas Farrell

Thomas Farrell graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1942. He was killed in action as a U.S. Army First Lieutenant…
Alva Fitch

Alva Fitch was the first Eagle Scout from his home state of Nebraska. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1930.…
Harry Flint

Harry A. “Paddy” Flint graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1912. At more than 50 years of age, he was…
Clarence Foss
Gordon Fowler

Lieutenant Colonel Fowler was credited with shooting down one enemy aircraft in aerial combat on October 6, 1944. He was killed in action in April…
Halstead Fowler

Halstead Fowler graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1920. After surviving the Bataan Death March in World War II, he…
Robert Fries

All ten members of Captain Glober’s crew on his Robert Fries’ DSC mission were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for their heroic actions.
Robert Fry

Robert Fry was a non-graduating member of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1945. During World War II he shot down 2 enemy…
Benjamin Fuller
Paul Gaynor

Paul Gaynor and his brother Robert were one of only three sets of brothers in WWII to each earn the Distinguished Service Cross. Both men…
Harold Gewald

Harold Gewald was working as a representative of General Motors when World War II began, and enlisted in the Army. His wife and daughter, living…
Balfour Gibson

Balfour Gibson’s B-17 was shot down on February 9, 1943, after a running, bloody battle with eight Japanese Zeros that wounded all nine members of…