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Louisiana's Military Heritage:

    Medal of Honor Recipients

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The Medal of Honor -- U.S. Army

The Medal of Honor -- U.S. Navy

The Medal of Honor -- U.S. Air Force

The Medal of Honor is the United States military's highest honor, given to those individuals who display "... conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty."

 

As of 2006, exactly 3,461 Medals of Honor have been awarded in the 145 years since the award was established.  Of those, twenty-one (21) native-born sons of Louisiana have received the highest honor that the military has to bestow upon them.

 

Click on the links below to learn more about each of these individuals as their individual award citations become available.

 

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The Civil War

 

Charles W. Anderson

John Williams

U.S. Cavalry

The Indian Campaigns

 

John Breckinridge Babcock

Powhatan Henry Clarke

Fred O. Hunt

Hampton Mitchell Roach

Emanuel Stance

Moses Williams

World War II Victory Medal (nicknamed "the Ruptured Duck")

World War II

 

Jefferson Joseph DeBlanc

James H. Diamond

Lloyd Herbert Hughes

Leroy Johnson

Hulon Brooke Whittington

Homer L. Wise

 

Korean War service ribbon

 

Korean War

 

Edward Rightor Schowalter, Jr.

Southeast Asia service ribbon

 

Vietnam War

 

Raymond Michael Clausen, Jr.

Douglas Bernard Fournet

Milton Arthur Lee

 

 

 

Peace Time

 

John Osborne

Albert Weisbogel

Thomas John Ryan, Jr.

 

 

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