President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority soldiers from the Korean War who may have been denied the nation's highest decoration for valor by a 1950s ...
The Army general after which Fort Cavazos, Texas is named will be one of five Korean War veterans to posthumously receive the Medal of Honor on Jan. 3. All five medals will be awarded today by ...
Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, a Korean War hero, native South Texan and Texas Tech alumnus known for becoming the first Hispanic U.S. Army general, posthumously received a Congressional Medal of Honor from ...
Another U.S. soldier from Los Angeles, whose government imprisoned him during World War ... award Medals of Honor decades after the soldiers' acts of valor and self-sacrifice in Korea and Vietnam.
But on Friday, he finally received the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor. Cavazos, who died in 2017, earned the award for actions during the Korean War in 1953, when the young ...
President Biden will award the United States' highest military honor Friday to seven U.S Army soldiers who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. The Medal of Honor is awarded to service members ...
Korean War Medal of Honor recipient Private Bruno R. Orig Private 1 st Class Kenneth David was serving as a radio telephone operator in central Vietnam enemy troops launched an intense surprise ...