Recipients

Raymond Bell

Raymond Bell graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1927. He retired in 1967 as a U.S. Army Major General.
Kearie Berry

Kearie Berry was promoted to brigadier general in 1946 and retired on May 2, 1947. Five days later, he was appointed by Governor Beauford Jester…
Robert Besson

Robert Besson graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1937. Captured as the fall of the Philippine Islands early in World…
James Bevlock

James Bevlock was credited with ONE enemy airplane destroyed in aerial combat during World War II, which action occurred on the day he earned the…
Omar Billett
Donald Blakeslee

Donald Blakeslee resigned his commission on September 13, 1940, in order to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. After training in Canada, Blakeslee began flying…
Wayne Blickenstaff

On a November 27, 1944 mission Lieutenant Colonel Blickenstaff destroyed FOUR enemy fighters in a single day, and claimed one more victory the following year…
Hampton Boggs

During World War II, Hampton Boggs became a U.S. Army Air Forces ACE, credited with shooting down 9 enemy aircraft in aerial combat and becoming…
Lester Boswell
Herman Bottcher

Born in Germany, Herman Bottcher was orphaned at an early age; his mother died while he was a toddler and his father was killed during…
Seth Botts
George Braga