Recipients

Richard Poling

Richard Poling was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force through the Air Force ROTC program at Texas A&M University. On the two-day action for which…
Charles Shaub

Colonel William Caldwell, Pilot of Staff Sergeant Shaub’s C-130, also received the Air Force Cross for his own heroic and skillful actions to avoid a…
Paul Koeltzow
Herbert Kalen

Five Air Force Crosses were awarded in the attempted rescue of American Prisoners of War camp at Son Tay, North Vietnam. Colonel Warner Britton “Apple…
John McTasney

John McTasney Graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Class of 1963. He retired in 1991 as a U.S. Air Force…
Larry Armstrong

Major Larry Armstrong, Captains John Corder and Tracey Dorsett and First Lieutenant James Hall also received the Air Force Cross for this mission. Colonel Larry…
Jerry Sellers
Thomas Newman

The F-105 Pilot rescued in this mission was Colonel Norman Phillips. Thomas Newman, who was later commissioned as an Air Force Officer, subsequently stated that…
Richard Nagel

Richard Nagel retired as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
James Hopkins

George A. Hopkins, James Hopkins’ father, earned the Army’s Distinguished Service Cross in World War I. James Hopkins served as a P-40 and P-47 fighter…
Karl Richter

Karl Richter Graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Class of 1964. In September 1966 he received one aerial victory credit…
David Williams

Captain Williams’s Pilot, Captain Rowland Smith, received the Air Force Cross on the same mission in which David Williams received his, and Captain Hal Henning,…