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Medal of Honor recipients for the Korean War

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Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr., Medal of Honor
Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr., Medal of Honor led the Eighth Army Ranger Company during the Korean War. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions on November 25, 1950, when his company o...
Lee Hugh Phillips (1930 - 1950)
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Corporal Lee Hugh Phillips (MCSN: 654797), United States Marine Co...
Robert D. Reem, USMC, Medal of Honor (1925 - 1950)
Dale Reem was born on October 20, 1925 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Elizabethtown High School in June 1943. During his final year of high school, he was a page in the Pennsylvania Hous...
PFC Leonard Harold Kravitz (c.1931 - 1951)
PFC Leonard Harold Kravitz, who was killed in action in the Korean War while defending against a Chinese attack and saving most of his platoon, and was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cr...
William Edward Shuck, Jr. (1926 - 1952)
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Staff Sergeant William Edward Shuck, Jr. (MCSN: 658047), United St...