Recipients

Wallace Emmer

Prior to his DSC mission Captain Emmer was a DOUBLE ACE with 10.5 victories. Before he was shot down, interned, and died in a German…
Irving Erickson

Irving Erickson was credited with shooting down a total of 3.5 enemy aircraft during World War II.
Austin Bryant
Simon Buckner

Simon Buckner graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1908. He was killed in action at Okinawa during World War II,…
James Burns
David Byars

David Byars graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1938. He retired as a U.S. Army Brigadier General.
Clovis Byers

Clovis Byers graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1920. He retired as a U.S. Army Lieutenant General in 1959.
Eugene Caffey

Eugene Caffey graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of June 1918. He retired as a U.S. Army Major General.
Bruce Carr

Bruce Carr was shot down on an mission in October 1944, and evaded for several days. Deciding at last to surrender to the Germans, as…
Hugh Casey

Hugh Casey entered the U.S. Military Academy during the summer of 1915. He was third in his class, which graduated in June 1918 due to…
Henry Cherry

Henry Cherry graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1935. He suffered a fatal illness and died in 1953 at Fort…
Guyton Christopher

Guyton Moses was pilot of a Flying Fortress that crashed with the loss of six members of the crew missing in action in January 1943.…