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Paul Mongillo
Major Robert Beale, Pilot of Paul Mongillo’s aircraft, also received the Air Force Cross for this mission. Major Mongillo was killed by flak that struck…
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Carl Mitchell
Carl Mitchell graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1950. Captain Vincent Hickman, Major Mitchell’s Navigator, was also posthumously awarded the…
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Jack Weatherby
Captain Weatherby’s official citation actually cites the “Republic of Vietnam” as the location of his mission. In fact, the target he photographed was located northwest…
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Robert Turner
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Philip Bannon
Philip Bannon graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1895. He served in the Spanish-American War, during the Boxer Rebellion in China,…
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George Thorpe
George Thorpe was appointed a naval cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1894 but resigned in November of 1896. At the outbreak…
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Carl Gamborg-Andresen
Carl Gamborg-Andresen was known as Charles G. Andresen throughout his early life until, in 1903 when he was 37 years old, the Secretary of the…
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William Powell
William Powell graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1893. He served in the Navy during the Spanish-American War, and was commissioned…
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James Mahoney
James Mahoney graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1881. In 1904 he commanded the Marine battalion that performed drills and other…
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Percival Pope
Percival Pope was the only Marine actually awarded the Brevet Medal for his actions during the Civil War. (James Forney was to have received the…
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John Myers
John Myers was the great-grandson of Revolutionary War hero General John Twiggs, and the son of Abraham Myers who had graduated from West Point who…
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William McKelvy
William McKelvy graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1891. He served in Cuba during the Spanish American War and in China…
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