On June 16, 1952, McGee’s platoon leader and several Soldiers suffered wounds during an assault on Hill 528 near Tang-Wan-Ni, Korea ... Biden awarded McGee the Medal of Honor during a ceremony ...
Lt. j.g. John Koelsch's most notable sortie ultimately cost him his life, but through his actions, the pilot he risked his ...
President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of ... from the Korean War who may have been denied the nation's highest decoration for valor by a 1950s Army that was still resisting ...
Patton native Ken Bailey was one of the medal recipients. He went to Korea as an Army private and left that country a sergeant. He remembers being told to “get that hill,” he said.
Another U.S. soldier from Los Angeles, whose government imprisoned him during World War II for being of Japanese descent, found himself alone on a battlefield in Korea ... military bases that ...