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AWARDS of the MEDAL OF HONOR 1941-1945
including US Marine Corps, US Coast Guard, and US Army and Army Air Corps awards related to Naval operations
Links to Main World War 2 Pages:
- Royal Navy Organisation
- Casualties, killed, died, missing
- 1,000 British Warship Service Histories
- Convoy Escort Movements
- Battles, Major Warship Losses
- Naval & Military Campaigns
- Navies Daily, 1939-42
- Admiralty War Diaries		  


on to Medal of Honor Recipients 1941
or return to World War 2, 1939-1945

 

I am grateful to the U.S. Army Center of Military History for making the citations available on the Internet and I am privileged to have read them - Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net

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Year   Campaigns, Battles, Operations
     
1941   Pearl Harbor (15 citations)  - Midway Island - Philippines Invasion - Wake Island
     
1942   Java Sea - Rabaul - Doolittle Raid - Japanese POW - Coral Sea (4 citations) - Midway - Makin Island - Gualdalcanal (10) - Cape Esperance & Guadalcanal (5) - Anti-shipping air ops - French North Africa (2) - Solomon Islands
     
1943   Submarine Ops - Air Ops (5 Citations) - Sicily - Lae - Bougainville (3) - Air Ops (2) - Tarawa (4)
     
1944   Kwajalein (4 citations)  - Air-sea rescue - Eniwetok - Battle of the Atlantic - Saipan (4) - Philippine Sea - Guam (4) - Tinian (2)  - Submarine Ops - Peleliu (8) - Leyte Gulf - Anti-shipping air ops
     
1945   Lingayen Gulf - Corregidor Island - Naval Diving Ops - Iwo Jima (27 citations) - USS Franklin (2) - Submarine Ops - Okinawa (13) - Kamikaze Attacks


Please note: US Army and US Army Air Corps Medals are a different design to those of the US Navy


Some Observations on the MEDAL OF HONOR and the British VICTORIA CROSS

on to Medal of Honor Recipients 1941
or return to World War 2, 1939-1945

revised  5/12/10