USN, Medal of Honor, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Wake, Island, Philippines, Fuqua

US Navy and Marine Corps

UNITED STATES NAVY

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

on to Medal of Honor Recipients 1941

I am grateful to the U.S. Army Center of Military History for making the citations available on the Internet and feel privileged to have read them.


	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

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