Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

His classmates loved him, but they might never have guessed that "Sandy" would become the first Medal of Honor recipient of World War II -- and that he fought like a Viking berserker in the process.

On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

(WOOD) — A Medal of Honor recipient from Southwest Michigan will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday. “I think it’s kind of special that I was (Trump’s) first Medal ...

More than 24,000 people have signed the Change.org petition requesting that the museum add Chapman’s story to approximately ...

When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...

Pension rolls for Medal of Honor recipients were first created in 1916, with pensioners receiving $10 per month from the federal government. The monthly stipend was raised to $100 in 1961 and $ ...

187th Infantry Regiment (Rakkasans), who he led in combat that led to him being awarded the Medal of Honor. During the first battle the unit fiercely took part in, between March 16-18, 1968 ...