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Honoring American TroopsMedal of Honor Archive

Achievement in flight

Notable recipients of the Air Medal

Heroism or meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight.

About this decoration

400 notable recipients

Names link to Wikipedia; ★ MoH marks people who also received the Medal of Honor (links to their profile here).

NameLifeBranchWar
Neil Armstrong1930–2012United States NavyKorean War
George H. W. Bush1924–2018United States NavyWorld War II
John McCain1936–2018United States NavyVietnam War
Buzz Aldrin1930United States Air ForceKorean War
Douglas MacArthur ★ MoH1880–1964Philippine ArmyWorld War I
Clark Gable1901–1960World War II
James Stewart1908–1997United States Army Air CorpsWorld War II
John Ford1894–1973United States NavyWorld War II
Colin Powell1937–2021United States ArmyVietnam War
Oliver Stone1946United States ArmyVietnam War
John Glenn1921–2016United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Robert Kiyosaki1947United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Joseph McCarthy1908–1957United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Jim Lovell1928–2025United States Navy
Gene Roddenberry1921–1991World War II
Chuck Yeager1923–2020United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Gus Grissom1926–1967United States Air ForceKorean War
Wally Schirra1923–2007United States NavyWorld War II
George McGovern1922–2012United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.1934–2012United States ArmyVietnam War
Roger Bruce Chaffee1935–1967United States Navy
Alexander Haig1924–2010United States ArmyVietnam War
William Westmoreland1914–2005United States ArmyWorld War II
Charles Bolden1946United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Tammy Duckworth1968Illinois Army National GuardIraq War
Reid Wiseman1975United States Navy
Mark Kelly1964United States Navy
Paul Tibbets1915–2007United States Army Air CorpsWorld War II
Deke Slayton1924–1993United States Air ForceWorld War II
Henry H. Arnold1886–1950aviationWorld War I
Ronald Evans1933–1990United States NavyVietnam War
Dick Scobee1939–1986United States Air ForceVietnam War
Michael J. Smith1945–1986United States NavyVietnam War
James McDivitt1929–2022United States Air ForceKorean War
Curtis LeMay1906–1990Ohio National GuardWorld War II
Joseph Kittinger1928–2022United States Air ForceVietnam War
Timothy Kopra1963
William R. Pogue1930–2014United States Air Force
Barry E. Wilmore1962United States Navy
Anne McClain1979
Ted Stevens1923–2010United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Ted Williams1918–2002United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Brian Keith1921–1997World War II
Paul J. Weitz1932–2017United States NavyVietnam War
Jasmin Moghbeli1983United States Marine Corps
Jimmy Doolittle ★ MoH1896–1993United States Air ForceWorld War I
Lloyd Bentsen1921–2006United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Scott Altman1959United States Navy
Lauri Törni1919–1965Waffen-SSWorld War II
Hugh Thompson Jr.1943–2006United States NavyVietnam War
Randolph Bresnik1967United States Marine Corps
Louis Zamperini1917–2014United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Lee Archambault1960United States Air Force
Claire Lee Chennault1893–1958aviationWorld War I
Christopher Ferguson1961United States Navy
George D. Zamka1962United States Marine Corps
Eric Boe1964United States Air Force
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.1915–1944United States NavyWorld War II
Robert L. Gibson1946United States NavyVietnam War
Daniel C. Burbank1961United States Coast Guard
Ronald J. Garan1961United States Air Force
Nicole Mann1977United States Marine Corps
Norman Lear1922–2023United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Eric Ken Shinseki1942United States ArmyVietnam War
Hal Moore1922–2017United States CavalryVietnam War
James C. Adamson1946Vietnam War
Jon McBride1943–2024United States NavyVietnam War
John M. Lounge1946–2011United States Navy
Terry W. Virts1967United States Air Force
Ellen Church1904–1965
Charles O. Hobaugh1961United States Marine Corps
Stephen Frick1964United States Navy
Charles Sweeney1919–2004United States Air ForceWorld War II
Carl Andrew Spaatz1891–1974United States Air ForceWorld War I
Tommy Franks1945United States ArmyCold War
Richard O. Covey1946United States Air ForceVietnam War
Norman Thagard1943United States Marine Corps
Andrew M. Allen1955United States Marine Corps
Gregory H. Johnson1962United States Air Force
Russell David Johnson1924–2014World War II
John Shalikashvili1936–2011United States ArmyVietnam War
James Stockdale ★ MoH1923–2005United States NavyVietnam War
Guion Bluford1942United States Air ForceVietnam War
Michael Coats1946United States NavyVietnam War
Alvin Drew1962United States Air Force
William Oefelein1965United States Navy
Sonny Carter1947–1991United States Navy
Pierre Clostermann1921–2006Free French Air ForceWorld War II
Daniel Brandenstein1943United States NavyVietnam War
Duncan L. Hunter1948United States ArmyVietnam War
John Casper1943United States Air ForceVietnam War
John E. Blaha1942United States Air ForceVietnam War
Frederick Hauck1941–2025United States NavyVietnam War
Thomas J. Hudner ★ MoH1924–2017United States NavyKorean War
Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie1957United States Navy
Frederick W. Sturckow1961United States Marine Corps
Andy Rooney1919–2011United States ArmyWorld War II
Richard Bong ★ MoH1920–1945United States ArmyWorld War II
Joseph Albert Walker1921–1966World War II
Ronald J. Grabe1945United States Air ForceVietnam War
James R. Clapper1941United States Air ForceVietnam War
Robert L. Stewart1942United States ArmyVietnam War
Mike Mullane1945United States Air ForceVietnam War
John Oliver Creighton1943United States Navy
John M. Fabian1939–2026United States Air Force
David M. Walker1944–2001United States Navy
Jack D. Fischer1974United States Air Force
Ed McMahon1923–2009United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Chesty Puller1898–1971United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Byron K. Lichtenberg1948United States Air ForceVietnam War
S. David Griggs1939–1989United States NavyVietnam War
Ben Nighthorse Campbell1933–2025United States Air ForceKorean War
Jeffrey Ashby1954United States Navy
Guy Gardner1948United States Air Force
Theodore Van Kirk1921–2014United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Jeremiah Denton1924–2014United States NavyVietnam War
Sherwood C. Spring1944Vietnam War
James van Hoften1944United States NavyVietnam War
James Buchli1945United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Michael James Adams1930–1967United States Air ForceKorean War
C. Douglas Dillon1909–2003United States NavyWorld War II
Wayne Morris1914–1959United States NavyWorld War II
Charles L. Veach1944–1995United States Air ForceVietnam War
Carlos I. Noriega1959United States Marine Corps
Duane G. Carey1957United States Air Force
Walton H. Walker1889–1950United States ArmyWorld War I
John R. Hodge1893–1963United States ArmyWorld War I
Lewis Hyde Brereton1890–1967United States ArmyWorld War I
Sam Johnson1930–2020United States Air ForceVietnam War
Richard Bowman Myers1942United States Air ForceVietnam War
Donald R. McMonagle1952United States Air Force
Frederick C. Weyand1916–2010United States ArmyWorld War II
Edward J. Ruppelt1923–1960United States Air ForceWorld War II
Robert L. Eichelberger1886–1961United States ArmyWorld War I
Hoyt Vandenberg1899–1954United States Air ForceWorld War II
Duke Cunningham1941–2025United States NavyVietnam War
Joe F. Edwards1958United States Navy
Steve Pearce1947United States Air Force
Roy D. Bridges Jr.1943United States Air Force
Mark Green1964United States Army
Nichole Ayers1988
Ira Clarence Eaker1896–1987United States Air ForceWorld War II
Robin Olds1922–2007United States Air ForceWorld War II
Michael Durant1961United States Army
Robert Hines1975United States Air Force
Nathan Farragut Twining1897–1982United States Air ForceWorld War I
Evan Mecham1924–2008World War II
Brendan Byrne1924–2018World War II
Robert C. Springer1942United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Robert Michael White1924–2010United States Air ForceKorean War
Keith B. Alexander1951United States ArmyGulf War
Robert Sink1905–1965United States ArmyWorld War II
Morris R. Jeppson1922–2010World War II
Gabby Gabreski1919–2002United States Air ForceWorld War II
Benjamin A. Gilman1922–2016United States Army Air CorpsWorld War II
Johnnie Johnson1915–2001British ArmyWorld War II
Bernt Balchen1899–1973United States Air ForceWorld War II
John Ciardi1916–1986World War II
Claude Eatherly1918–1978United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Dieter Dengler1938–2001United States NavyVietnam War
Jim Nicholson1938Vietnam War
Hugh Shelton1942United States ArmyVietnam War
Leonard T. Gerow1888–1972United States ArmyWorld War I
Oliver P. Smith1893–1977United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Nancy Harkness Love1914–1976United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Lauris Norstad1907–1988United States Department of the Air ForceWorld War II
Neal Edward Smith1920–2021United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
John A. Wickham1928–2024United States ArmyVietnam War
Karl Marlantes1944United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Howard Cannon1912–2002United States Air Force
Joseph R. Pitts1939United States Air Force
Harry B. Harris Jr.1956United States Navy
Jack Bergman1947United States Marine Corps
August Pfluger1977United States Air Force
Edward Almond1892–1979United States ArmyWorld War I
Frank Maxwell Andrews1884–1943United States ArmyWorld War I
George Scratchley Brown1918–1978United States Air ForceWorld War II
Thomas B. Hayward1924–2022United States NavyWorld War II
Thomas McGuire ★ MoH1920–1945United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Bud Anderson1922–2024United States Air ForceWorld War II
Joseph Ralston1943United States Air ForceVietnam War
James Peake1944United States ArmyVietnam War
William F. Garrison1944United States ArmyVietnam War
Tod D. Wolters1960United States Air ForceGulf War
Clark James Gable1988–2019
Alexus Grynkewich1971United States Air Force
James L. Holloway III1922–2019United States NavyWorld War II
Alvin S. White1918–2006United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
George H. Gay Jr.1917–1994United States NavyWorld War II
Thomas Ferebee1918–2000United States Air ForceWorld War II
Bernard W. Rogers1921–2008United States ArmyWorld War II
David C. Jones1921–2013United States Air ForceWorld War II
Paul D. Harkins1904–1984United States ArmyWorld War II
William J. Crowe1925–2007United States NavyVietnam War
Kaiali‘i Kahele1974United States Air ForceWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Jesse L. Brown1926–1950United States NavyKorean War
Mark Welsh1953United States Air ForceGulf War
William G. Boykin1948United States Army
Hobart R. Gay1894–1983United States ArmyWorld War I
Manton S. Eddy1892–1962United States ArmyWorld War I
Thomas D. White1901–1965United States Air ForceWorld War II
Kermit Beahan1918–1989United States Air ForceWorld War II
John F. Bolt1921–2004United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Haywood S. Hansell1903–1988United States Air ForceWorld War II
Jacob Beser1921–1992United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
C. Wade McClusky1902–1976United States NavyWorld War II
Dominic Salvatore Gentile1920–1951United States Air ForceWorld War II
Frank Kendall Everest Jr.1920–2004United States Air ForceWorld War II
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.1912–2002United States Air ForceWorld War II
Dan Rowan1922–1987World War II
Daniel James, Jr.1920–1978United States Air ForceWorld War II
Witold Urbanowicz1908–1996Polish Air Force (1918-1939)World War II
William Milliken1922–2019World War II
Ralph Puckett ★ MoH1926–2024United States ArmyVietnam War
Leighton W. Smith, Jr.1939–2023United States NavyVietnam War
James Alan Abrahamson1933United States Air ForceVietnam War
Donald Grant Nutter1915–1962
William Morris Meredith1919–2007
John Barron McKay1922–1975United States Navy
Marshall B. Webb1961United States Air Force
Jeannie Leavitt1967
Scott Stearney1960–2018United States Navy
John B. Coulter1891–1983World War I
John William Vessey1922–2016United States ArmyWorld War II
Lewis Millett ★ MoH1920–2009United States ArmyWorld War II
Jerry Coleman1924–2014United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
John Lloyd Waddy1916–1987World War II
Richard E. Cole1915–2019United States Air ForceWorld War II
Alexander Vraciu1918–2015United States NavyWorld War II
Bob Hoover1922–2016United States Air ForceWorld War II
Bruce Perry Crandall ★ MoH1933–2026United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert T. Frederick1907–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Thomas S. Power1905–1970United States Air ForceWorld War II
Charles McGee1919–2022United States Air ForceWorld War II
Robin Moore1925–2008United States ArmyWorld War II
Lee Archer1919–2010United States Air ForceWorld War II
John Galvin1929–2015United States ArmyVietnam War
Merrill McPeak1936United States Air ForceVietnam War
Jack H. Jacobs ★ MoH1945United States ArmyVietnam War
Michael E. Ryan1941United States Air ForceVietnam War
Dick Rutan1938–2024United States Air ForceVietnam War
Chuck Horner1936United States Air ForceVietnam War
William J. Fallon1944United States NavyVietnam War
Mary Jennings Hegar1976United States Air ForceWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Matt Van Epps1983Tennessee Army National Guard
Oscar Griswold1886–1959United States ArmyWorld War I
Franklin C. Sibert1891–1980United States ArmyWorld War I
Bud Day ★ MoH1925–2013United States Air ForceWorld War II
Robert Lee Scott Jr.1908–2006United States Air ForceWorld War II
Samuel C. Phillips1921–1990United States Air ForceWorld War II
Trevor N. Dupuy1916–1995United States ArmyWorld War II
William E. DePuy1919–1992United States ArmyWorld War II
John Dale Ryan1915–1983United States Air ForceWorld War II
David McCampbell ★ MoH1910–1996United States NavyWorld War II
Basil L. Plumley1920–2012United States ArmyWorld War II
Victor H. Krulak1913–2008United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
George W. Casey, Sr.1922–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
David Hackworth1930–2005United States ArmyWorld War II
Ben Kuroki1917–2015World War II
Bolesław Gładych1918–2011Polish Air Force (1918-1939)World War II
Frederick Kroesen1923–2020United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert Aitken Rushworth1924–1993United States Air ForceWorld War II
Bryan D. Brown1948United States ArmyVietnam War
Charles James McDonnell1928–2020United States ArmyVietnam War
John R. Dailey1934United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
George Joulwan1939United States ArmyVietnam War
Wayne A. Downing1940–2007United States ArmyVietnam War
Barry McCaffrey1942United States ArmyVietnam War
Amy McGrath1975United States Marine CorpsIraq War
Nicole Malachowski1974United States Air ForceIraq War
Bob Price1927–2004Korean War
Morton Deutsch1920–2017
Bruce Sundlun1920–2011United States Army Air Forces
Thomas Andrews Drake1957United States Air Force
Frank Gorenc1957United States Air Force
Marcos Berríos1984
John Shirley Wood1888–1966United States ArmyWorld War I
Daniel I. Sultan1885–1947United States ArmyWorld War I
George E. Stratemeyer1890–1969United States Air ForceWorld War I
Roscoe B. Woodruff1891–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
George Juskalian1914–2010United States ArmyWorld War II
Joseph M. Swing1894–1984World War II
John K. Singlaub1921–2022United States ArmyWorld War II
Paul L. Freeman Jr.1907–1988United States ArmyWorld War II
John Kizirian1928–2006United States ArmyWorld War II
Dean Hess1917–2015United States Air ForceWorld War II
Harold Robert Aaron1921–1980United States ArmyWorld War II
William H. Blanchard1916–1966United States Air ForceWorld War II
William Howard Arnold1901–1976World War II
Jack Lewis1924–2009United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Robert Rosenthal1917–2007United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
André Moynet1921–1993French Air and Space ForceWorld War II
Charles H. MacDonald1914–2002United States Air ForceWorld War II
Robert M. Hanson ★ MoH1920–1944United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
George Welch1918–1954United States Air ForceWorld War II
Glen Edwards1918–1948World War II
Ernest N. Harmon1894–1979United States ArmyWorld War II
John P. McConnell1908–1986United States Air ForceWorld War II
Clair Burgener1921–2006United States Air ForceWorld War II
John P. Jumper1945United States Air ForceVietnam War
James L. Dozier1931United States ArmyVietnam War
Patrick Henry Brady ★ MoH1936United States ArmyVietnam War
Charles Kettles ★ MoH1930–2019United States ArmyVietnam War
John N. Abrams1946–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Sam S. Walker1925–2015United States ArmyVietnam War
Timothy J. Keating1948United States NavyVietnam War
Robert L. Howard ★ MoH1939–2009Vietnam War
William H. Pitsenbarger ★ MoH1944–1966United States Air ForceVietnam War
Fitzhugh L. Fulton1925–2015United States Air ForceCold War
James J. Lindsay1932–2023United States ArmyVietnam War
Charles R. Holland1946United States Air ForceVietnam War
John Fugh1934–2010United States ArmyVietnam War
Patrick M. Walsh1955United States NavyGulf War
Ramón Colón-López1971Gulf War
James A. Winnefeld, Jr.1956United States NavyIraq War
Stanford Parris1929–2010United States Air ForceKorean War
Robert T. Herres1932–2008United States Air Force
Robert M. Kimmitt1947United States Army
T. Michael Moseley1949United States Air Force
Edward Lunn Young1920–2017
Jack C. Taylor1922–2016United States Navy
Constantin Rozanoff1905–1954aviation
Henry L. Garrett III1939United States Navy
Hansford T. Johnson1936United States Air Force
James W. Pardew1944–2021United States Army
Raymond E. Johns, Jr.1954United States Air Force
Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell1976United States Air Force
Harold L. George1893–1986United States Air ForceWorld War I
Jens A. Doe1891–1971World War I
John W. O'Daniel1894–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
Henry E. Erwin ★ MoH1921–2002United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Joe M. Jackson ★ MoH1923–2019United States Air ForceWorld War II
John Hyland1912–1998United States NavyWorld War II
Joseph Warren Stilwell, Jr.1912–1966United States ArmyWorld War II
Leon W. Johnson ★ MoH1904–1997United States Air ForceWorld War II
Michael S. Davison1917–2006United States ArmyWorld War II
James Philo Hagerstrom1921–1994United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Louis Edward Curdes1919–1995United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Tadeusz Sawicz1914–2011Polish Air Force (1918-1939)World War II
Venero Mangano1921–2017World War II
Walter T. Kerwin, Jr.1917–2008World War II
James H. Polk1911–1992United States ArmyWorld War II
Earl Hogan1920–2007World War II
James T. Blair, Jr.1902–1962World War II
Alan Magee1919–2003United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
George Andrew Davis ★ MoH1920–1952United States Air ForceWorld War II
James Sargent Russell1903–1996United States NavyWorld War II
Kenneth M. Taylor1919–2006United States Air ForceWorld War II
James Jabara1923–1966United States Air ForceWorld War II
Bill Bower1917–2011United States Air ForceWorld War II
Robert S. Johnson1920–1998United States Air ForceWorld War II
Donald Blakeslee1917–2008United States Air ForceWorld War II
George H. McKee1923–2015United States Air ForceWorld War II
Charles Carpenter1913–1966World War II
Clark L. Ruffner1903–1982United States ArmyWorld War II
Arthur D. Simons1918–1979United States ArmyWorld War II
Paul F. Gorman1927–2026United States ArmyVietnam War
Larry D. Welch1934United States Air ForceCold War
George B. Crist1931–2024United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Ralph Eberhart1946United States Air ForceVietnam War
Bo Gritz1939–2026Vietnam War
Leon E. Salomon1936–2023United States ArmyVietnam War
Louis C. Wagner, Jr.1932–2025United States ArmyVietnam War
Royce Williams ★ MoH1925United States NavyVietnam War
William E. Gortney1955United States NavyCold War
Sidney Shachnow1934–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Howell M. Estes III1941–2024United States Air ForceVietnam War
Jimmy D. Ross1936–2012United States ArmyVietnam War
Frederick M. Franks, Jr.1936United States ArmyCold War
George Lee Butler1939United States Air ForceCold War
Robert W. RisCassi1936United States ArmyCold War
Gary E. Luck1937–2024United States ArmyVietnam War
Carl Stiner1936–2022United States ArmyVietnam War
Richard Scholtes1934United States ArmyVietnam War
Charles F. Wald1948United States Air ForceVietnam War
Crosbie E. Saint1936–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Ronald Keys1945United States Air ForceVietnam War
J. H. Binford Peay III1940United States ArmyVietnam War
Donald J. Kutyna1933United States Air ForceVietnam War
Glenn K. Otis1929–2013United States ArmyVietnam War
Richard A. Cody1950United States ArmyGulf War
Mark P. Fitzgerald1951United States NavyGulf War
Charles A. Gabriel1928–2003United States Air ForceKorean War
Claude AnShin Thomas1947
Burt L. Talcott1920–2016
Don Herbert1917–2007
Joseph W. Prueher1942United States Navy
Mario H. Gottfried Gutiérrez1919–1999
Thomas A. Bussiere1963United States Air Force
Luke Delaney1979
Delos Carleton Emmons1889–1965World War I
Thomas Francis Hickey1898–1983United States ArmyWorld War I
Hubert R. Harmon1892–1957United States Air ForceWorld War I
Andrew Davis Bruce1894–1969United States ArmyWorld War I
Caleb V. Haynes1895–1966United States Air ForceWorld War I
Edward A. Craig1896–1994United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
John C. Meyer1919–1975United States Air ForceWorld War II
Lucius D. Clay, Jr.1919–1994United States Air ForceWorld War II
John K. Cannon1892–1955United States Air ForceWorld War II
John R. Deane, Jr.1919–2013United States ArmyWorld War II