One year of World War II put enough American fighters into action to earn for them more than 3.838 medals.* Army heroes won 2,298; the Navy’s, 1,388; Marines, 147; Coast Guard, 5. Most decorated ...

Less than a dozen cadets and midshipmen who faced off in the annual rivalry game later earned the Medal of Honor for combat bravery.

A WWII veteran’s sons hope to give his long-lost Purple Heart medal to his grandson, who also served in the Army and had a ...

In a country where the president seems, at times, to be mostly fictional, it's a pretty apt metaphor for the state of things ...

An effort to push the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act through Congress failed in November after one ...

But the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat bravery, was awarded just 473 times. The first was awarded to a Navy sailor in Hawaii who fired at Japanese bombers before the first ...

Numerous Indigenous veterans are currently being reviewed as potential recipients of the Medal of Honor — more than a century ...