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Medal of Honor citation: Rank and organization: Major, United States Army Air Forces Place and date: Over Borneo and Leyte, October 10 to November 15, 1944Entered service at: Poplar, Wisconsin Birth: Poplar, Wisconsin G.O. No.: 90, December 8, 1944 F ...

CPL. RED CLOUD, COMPANY C, 19TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 24TH DIVISION ON NOV 5, 1950 HELD OFF HUNDREDS OF ATTACKING CHINESE, KILLING MANY. HE WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED, THUS GIVING HIS LIFE FOR HIS FELLOW AMERICANS. FOR HIS COURAGE HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR ...


MAJOR RICHARD I. BONG DESTROYED FORTY ENEMY AIRCRAFT WHILE IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING WORLD WAR II. HE BECAME AMERICA'S LEADING AIR ACE OF ALL TIME. HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR BY A GRATEFUL GOVERNMENT.

CORPORAL MITCHELL RED CLOUD WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR HIS COURAGEOUS ACTION IN BATTLE BETWEEN U.S. TROOPS AND CHINESE COMMUNIST NEAR CHONGHYON KOREA, NOV 5, 1950

PARK COMMEMORATES THE HEROIC DEEDS OF CORPORAL MITCHELL RED CLOUD, KOREAN WAR MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT.

MASTER SERGEANT MELVIN O. HANDRICH OF THE U.S. ARMY WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR HIS COURAGEOUS ACTIONS IN BATTLE NEAR SOBUK SAN MOUNTAIN, KOREA ON AUGUST 25-26, 1950.

TO COMMEMORATE THE VALOUR AND PATRIOTISM OF THE MEN WHO SERVED IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN, PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION AND CHINA RELIEF EXPEDITION 1898-1902. THE STATUE IS CALLED THE HIKER WHICH IS A TERM THAT SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VETERANS CALLED THEMSELVES.

GENERAL CHARLES KING SPENT MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS IN UNIFORM, LONGER THAN ANY SOLDIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

IN MEMORIAM U.S.S. MAINE DESTROYED IN HAVANA HARBOR FEBRUARY 15, 1898 THIS TABLET IS CAST FROM METAL RECOVERED FROM THE U.S.S. MAINE.


DEDICATED ON OCTOBER 20, 1991, THIS MOVING MEMORIAL HAS BECOME THE FOCAL POINT OF VETERANS PARK AT MILWAUKEE'S LAKEFRONT. THREE WAUSAU RED GRANITE COLUMNS STAND 22-26-30 FEET HIGH AND REPRESENT THOSE KILLED IN ACTION, POW-MIA, AND THOSE RETURNED HOME. THE ...

THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS OF THE MEMORIAL AT NIGHT TO SEE A PHOTOGRAPH DURING DAY LIGHT SEE BELOW. SEE ALSO-SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL I SEE ALSO-SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAQUE

This monument was physically built by members of the Walter Miller AMVETS Post #5 from Menomonee Falls in 1947. Walter Miller was the first soldier from Menomonee Falls to be killed in World War II. The monument was dedicated on July 4, 1947. The cerem ...

PVT. RICHARD COSGRIFF WAS A MEMBER OF THE 4TH IOWA CAVALRY. HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR ACTION IN CAPTURING THE ENEMY FLAG AND ITS BEARER AT A BRIDGE OVER THE CHATTACHOOCHEE RIVER IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA ON APRIL 16, 1865.

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THE MEDAL OF HONOR WALKWAY CONSIST OF OVER 9,000 BICKS AND PROVIDES HANDICAPPED ACCESS TO VETERANS PLAZA. BLACK GRANITE MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIALS FOR SEVEN RECIPIENTS FROM THE AREA LINE THE WALKWAY. SEE ALSO-JANESVILLE VETERANS PLAZA ETERNAL FLAME MEMORIA ...

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BUGLER CLARON WINDUS, COMPANY L, 6TH U.S. CAVALRY. AT WICHITA RIVER, TEX., 12 JULY 1870. FOR GALLANTRY IN ACTION HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR. SEE ALSO-JANESVILLE MEDAL OF HONOR VETERANS WALKWAY

PRIVATE THEODORE W.B. GOLDIN TROOP G, 7TH U.S. CAVALRY. AT LITTLE BIG HORN, MONT., 26 JUNE 1876.ONE OF A PARTY OF VOLUNTEERS WHO, UNDER HEAVY FIRE FROM THE INDIANS, WENT FOR AND BROUGHT WATER TO THE WOUNDED.FOR THIS ACTION HE WAS AWAREDED THE MEDAL OF HON ...

PRIVATE JOHN JOHNSON, COMPANY D, 2D WISCONSIN INFANTRY. AT FREDERICKSBURG, VA., 13 DECEMBER 1862. CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY IN BATTLE IN WHICH HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED. WHILE SERVING AS CANNONEER HE MANNED THE POSITION OF FALLEN GUNNERS. FOR THIS ACTION HE WAS ...

PRIVATE JAMES E. CROFT, 12TH BATTERY, WISCONSIN LIGHT ARTILLERY. AT ALLATOONA, GA., 5 OCTOBER 1864. PRIVATED CROFT TOOK THE PLACE OF A GUNNER WHO HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN AND INSPIRED HIS COMRADES BY HIS BRAVERY AND EFFECTIVE GUNNERY, WHICH CONTRIBUTED LARGELY ...

1ST LT. JAMES BURTON POND COMPANY C, 3D WISCONSIN CAVALRY. AT BAXTER SPRINGS, KANS., 6 OCTOBER 1863. WHILE IN COMMAND OF TWO COMPANIES OF CAVALRY, WAS SURPRISE AND ATTACKED BY SEVERAL TIMES HIS OWN NUMBER OF GUERRILLAS, BUT GALLANTLY RALLIED HIS MEN, AND ...

STAFF SERGEANT GERALD L. ENDL, U.S. ARMY, 32ND INFANTRY DIVISION NEAR ANAMO, NEW GUINEA, 11 JULY 1944. 7 WOUNDED MEMBERS OF HIS PLATOON WERE CUT OFF BY THE ENEMY. REFUSING TO LEAVE THEM S/SGT. ENDL WENT FORWARD ALONE IN THE FACE OF EXTREMELY HEAVY FIRE AN ...

PFC. LESLIE ALLEN BELLRICHARD, U.S. ARMY COMPANY C, 1ST BATTALION, 8TH INFANTRY KONTUM PROVINCE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, 20 MAY 1967. PFC BELLRICHARD WAS WITH 4 FELLOW SOLDIERS IN A FOXHOLE ON THEIR UNITS PERIMETER WHEN THE POSITION CAME UNDER MASSIVE ENEMY A ...