Fighting in the City of Hue as a Marine, Myron Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.
Military Times on MSN12d
First Black officer to earn Medal of Honor sacrificed all in VietnamMany of Pitts’ soldiers believed they would not have made it through the ordeal had it not been for the leadership of their ...
It also detailed his bravery during Vietnam in the early spring ... for valor and three Purple Hearts, among other awards, leading the Marine Corps to call him "one of the most decorated Marines ...
A group of veterans and lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to award an 87-year-old Marine Corps "legend" and war hero the Medal of Honor ... served in the Vietnam War and saved seven ...
The Associated Press on MSN9d
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purgeReferences to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the ...
Capt. Joshua C. Watson, left, student naval aviator, is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida, Feb. 28, 2025. (Lance Cpl. Joshua Barker ...
It was not until Vietnam, however, that a Black soldier, Riley Pitts, earned both an officer’s commission and the Medal of Honor. Born in Fallis, Oklahoma, on Oct. 15, 1937, Riley Leroy Pitts ...
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