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5/22/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Thomas G. Kelley
It was the worst possible time to break down. On June 15, 1969, Lt. Thomas G. Kelley was leading a column of eight Navy river assault craft along the rivers and ...

4/22/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Bruce P. Crandall
He is the most recent living recipient of America's highest award for military valor. In a ceremony at the White House in 2007, more than 41 years after his ...

3/20/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
James E. Livingston
In one ferocious battle after another, without a moment's rest between the defense of a key bridge and an assault on an enemy-held village, Echo Company ...

2/21/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Brain M. Thacker
One soldier had to stay behind. The small observation team at Fire Base 6 was under heavy fire and vastly outnumbered, and two helicopters were shot down ...

1/24/2008

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Hershel "Woody" Williams
Five foot six was too short for the Marines in the fall of 1942, and barely tall enough a few months later; on the island of Iwo Jima, with the American forces taking ...

12/5/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Walter D. Ehlers
Leadership came naturally to the young Kansas native, newly promoted to Staff Sergeant on the eve of the landing at Normandy...

11/7/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Patrick H. Brady
For all of the money and development hours that go into best-selling video games, the virtual world still hasn't caught up with what Patrick Brady did with a real-life ...

9/13/2007

Medal of Honor: Allen Lynch
Allen J. Lynch
To his fellow soldiers, Illinois native Allen Lynch is a hero; to the enemy force that ambushed his battalion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, he was a nightmare ...

7/18/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Roger Donlon, U.S. Army, Vietnam War
Roger Donlon served 32 years of his life in uniform rising to the rank of colonel. A leader in so many ways, he was the first Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War, ...

6/28/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Ronald E. Rosser, U.S. Army, Korean War
In the bitter cold of January 1952, then-Army Corporal Ronald E. Rosser of Roseville, Ohio, earned the nation's highest award while serving as a forward observer for ...

5/17/2007

2009 Congressional Medal of Honor Society's Convention
Mayor Richard M. Daley
Announcement of Chicago as Host City for the Prestigious Congressional Medal of Honor Society's 2009 Convention. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Hon. Chairma...

3/22/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Leo K. Thorsness
While on a "Wild Weasel" surface-to-air missile suppression mission over North Vietnam on April 19, 1967, then-Maj. Thorsness did the unthinkable ...

2/23/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Thomas J. Hudner Jr.
On December 4, 1950, Lt. Thomas J. Hudner Jr. was flying a ground support mission in his F4U Corsair as the wingman to Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the Navy's first...

1/19/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Harvey C. "Barney" Barnum, Jr.
Mr. Barnum was sworn in as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Reserve Affairs on 23 July, 2001. In this capacity he is responsible for all matters ...

11/16/2006

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
WWII Museum; New Orleans, LA
MEDAL OF HONOR SERIES with Ed Tracy. The Pritzker Military Library's Executive Producer, Ed Tracy, hosts a live interview with three of America's most

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The Pritzker Military Library hosts live interviews with recipients of America's highest award for valor in action against an enemy, the Medal of Honor. Each program explores the lives and times of these extraordinary men, and can be seen online as webcasts or downloaded as audio podcasts.

Medal of Honor Fact Sheet
Lesson Plan: History of the Medal of Honor
Lesson Plan: What Does It Take to be a Medal of Honor Recipient?

September 15 - 19, 2009

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