Recipients Archive

Wilson Vance

Wilson Brown

In the years after the war, Wilson Brown remained friends with fellow raider Jacob Parrott. Edith Gertrude Brown, one of his eight children, subsequently married…

Winthrop Putnam

Woodrow Keeble

Woodrow Keeble was a Sioux Indian who grew up in Wahpeton and attended the Indian School (now Circle of Nations). He was originally awarded the…

Yeiki Kobashigawa

Only one Medal of Honor was presented to a Japanese-American soldier during World War II, despite the fact that these soldiers, despite intense prejudice at…

Ysmael Villegas

Yukio Okutsu

Only one Medal of Honor was presented to a Japanese-American soldier during World War II, despite the fact that these soldiers, despite intense prejudice at…