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Honoring American TroopsMedal of Honor Archive

Valor — third highest

Notable recipients of the Silver Star

Gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.

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
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973United States NavyWorld War II
John McCain1936–2018United States NavyVietnam War
Douglas MacArthur ★ MoH1880–1964Philippine ArmyKorean War
John Kerry1943United States NavyVietnam War
George Marshall1880–1959United States ArmyPhilippine–American War
Mohammed VI of Morocco1963
George S. Patton1885–1945United States CavalryMexican Border War
Lloyd J. Austin III1953United States ArmyIraq War
Omar Bradley1893–1981United States ArmyKorean War
John J. Pershing1860–1948United States ArmyPhilippine–American War
Chuck Yeager1923–2020United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Chris Kyle1974–2013United States Navy
Charles Durning1923–2012United States ArmyWorld War II
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg1921–2019British ArmyWorld War II
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.1934–2012United States ArmyGulf War
Audie Murphy ★ MoH1925–1971United States Army ReserveWorld War II
Alexander Haig1924–2010United States ArmyKorean War
Sterling Hayden1916–1986United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Francis Gary Powers1929–1977United States Air Force
Wesley Clark1944United States ArmyKosovo War
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque1902–1947French ArmyRif War
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.1909–2000United States NavyWorld War II
Jim Webb1946United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Samuel Fuller1912–1997United States ArmyWorld War II
Curtis LeMay1906–1990Ohio National GuardWorld War II
Joseph Kittinger1928–2022United States Air ForceVietnam War
Creighton Abrams1914–1974United States ArmyKorean War
Maxwell D. Taylor1901–1987United States ArmyKorean War
Jimmy Doolittle ★ MoH1896–1993United States Air ForceWorld War I
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ★ MoH1887–1944United States ArmyWorld War I
Oliver North1943United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Dale Robertson1923–2013United States ArmyWorld War II
Courtney Hodges1887–1966United States ArmyWorld War I
Matthew Ridgway1895–1993United States ArmyKorean War
Joseph Lawton Collins1896–1987United States ArmyKorean War
Jack Bauer1966–http
H. R. McMaster1962United States ArmyGulf War
James M. Gavin1907–1990United States ArmyWorld War II
Jonny Kim1984United States Navy Reserve
William Colby1920–1996United States ArmyWorld War II
Charles Sweeney1919–2004United States Air ForceWorld War II
Clifton James1920–2017United States ArmyWorld War II
James Stockdale ★ MoH1923–2005United States NavyVietnam War
Pierre Clostermann1921–2006Free French Air ForceWorld War II
Neville Brand1920–1992United States ArmyWorld War II
James L. Jones1943United States Marine CorpsGulf War
Richard Bong ★ MoH1920–1945United States ArmyWorld War II
Chesty Puller1898–1971United States Marine CorpsKorean War
John N. Mitchell1913–1988United States NavyWorld War II
Arleigh Burke1901–1996United States NavyKorean War
Anthony McAuliffe1898–1975United States ArmyWorld War II
Ronald Speirs1920–2007United States ArmyKorean War
Lyman Lemnitzer1899–1988United States ArmyKorean War
Theodore Van Kirk1921–2014United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Tony Hillerman1925–2008United States ArmyWorld War II
Carlos Hathcock1942–1999United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Jeremiah Denton1924–2014United States NavyVietnam War
Eric Wolf1923–1999
Jack Reacher1960Military Police Corps
Félix Rodríguez1941United States Army
William H. Simpson1888–1980United States ArmyWorld War I
Burt Kennedy1922–2001World War II
William Guarnere1923–2014United States ArmyWorld War II
Walton H. Walker1889–1950United States ArmyKorean War
James A. Van Fleet1892–1992United States ArmyKorean War
Sam Johnson1930–2020United States Air ForceKorean War
Lewis Hyde Brereton1890–1967United States ArmyWorld War I
Richard Marcinko1940–2021United States NavyVietnam War
Robert L. Eichelberger1886–1961United States ArmyWorld War I
Robert P. Patterson1891–1952World War I
Frederick C. Weyand1916–2010United States ArmyKorean War
John S. McCain, Jr.1911–1981United States NavyKorean War
Hoyt Vandenberg1899–1954United States Air ForceWorld War II
Bill Bowerman1911–1999World War II
Earl Foster Thomson1900–1971World War II
Michael P. Murphy ★ MoH1976–2005United States NavyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
George Patton IV1923–2004United States ArmyKorean War
William Sterling Parsons1901–1953United States NavyWorld War II
Duke Cunningham1941–2025United States NavyVietnam War
Frederick W. Smith1944–2025United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Edwin Walker1909–1993United States ArmyKorean War
Mohamed Oufkir1920–1972Royal Moroccan ArmyWorld War II
Michael A. Monsoor ★ MoH1981–2006United States NavyIraq War
Lynn Compton1921–2012World War II
Ira Clarence Eaker1896–1987United States Air ForceWorld War II
Robin Olds1922–2007United States Air ForceWorld War II
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.1914–1988navyWorld War II
James Roosevelt1907–1991United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Max Cleland1942–2021United States ArmyVietnam War
George Kenney1889–1977United States Air ForceWorld War I
Barney Ross1909–1967United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Robert Michael White1924–2010United States Air ForceKorean War
Michel Thomas1914–2005World War II
Robert James O'Neill1976United States NavyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
John T. Walton1946–2005United States Army
Patrick J. Hurley1883–1963United States ArmyWorld War I
Howell Heflin1921–2005United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Henry Bellmon1921–2009United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Gabby Gabreski1919–2002United States Air ForceKorean War
Robert Sink1905–1965United States ArmyWorld War II
Thomas Hinman Moorer1912–2004United States NavyWorld War II
Frank Kurtz1911–1996United States Air ForceWorld War II
Clarence R. Huebner1888–1972United States ArmyWorld War I
Morris R. Jeppson1922–2010World War II
Eddie Crook1929–2005United States Army
Terry de la Mesa Allen1888–1969United States ArmyWorld War I
Norman Cota1893–1971United States ArmyWorld War I
John A. Wickham1928–2024United States ArmyKorean War
Oliver P. Smith1893–1977United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Charles Alvin Beckwith1929–1994United States ArmyKorean War
Bantz J. Craddock1949United States ArmyKosovo War
John J. Gilligan1921–2013World War II
Leonard T. Gerow1888–1972United States ArmyWorld War I
Sam Ervin1896–1985World War I
Lauris Norstad1907–1988United States Department of the Air ForceWorld War II
Howard Cannon1912–2002United States Air Force
Rick Rescorla1939–2001British Army
Daniel Daly ★ MoH1873–1937United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
George Scratchley Brown1918–1978United States Air ForceKorean War
Edward Almond1892–1979United States ArmyKorean War
Tahsin Yazıcı1892–1970Korean War
Peyton C. March1864–1955United States ArmySpanish–American War
Troy H. Middleton1889–1976United States ArmyWorld War I
Thomas McGuire ★ MoH1920–1945United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
James Peake1944United States ArmyVietnam War
Jack Pennick1895–1964United States Marine Corps
Cao Van Vien1921–2008
Charles B. McVay III1898–1968United States NavyWorld War II
Ben Lear1879–1966United States ArmyWorld War II
Charles A. Willoughby1892–1972United States ArmyWorld War I
John Thach1905–1981United States NavyKorean War
Bernard W. Rogers1921–2008United States ArmyKorean War
Sid McMath1912–2003United States Marine Corps ReserveWorld War II
Charles Edward Bennett1910–2003United States ArmyWorld War II
Charles Willeford1919–1988United States ArmyWorld War II
Thomas Ferebee1918–2000United States Air ForceWorld War II
William P. Yarborough1912–2005United States ArmyWorld War II
Clifton Bledsoe Cates1893–1970United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Courtney Whitney1897–1969United States ArmyKorean War
Pete McCloskey1927–2024United States Marine Corps ReserveKorean War
Brian Stann1980United States Marine CorpsIraq War
Karl Rolvaag1913–1990World War II
Guy Henry1875–1967United States ArmyWorld War I
Bruce Palmer Jr.1913–2000United States ArmyWorld War II
Teno Roncalio1916–2003World War II
Frederick Ashworth1912–2005United States NavyWorld War II
Stanley Rogers Resor1917–2012World War II
Paul LaCamera1963United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Eric T. Olson1952United States Navy
Ernest W. Gibson Jr.1901–1969
Gustave Marinius Heiss1904–1982
Hobart R. Gay1894–1983United States ArmyWorld War I
Robert Halperin1908–1985United States NavyWorld War II
Haywood S. Hansell1903–1988United States Air ForceWorld War II
Jacob Beser1921–1992United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Leland Hobbs1892–1966United States ArmyWorld War I
Hamilton Fish III1888–1991United States ArmyWorld War I
Joseph J. Clark1893–1971United States NavyWorld War I
Alfred M. Gray Jr.1928–2024United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Derek Allhusen1914–2000British ArmyWorld War II
Charles E. Potter1916–1979United States ArmyWorld War II
Eugene Roe1922–1998United States ArmyWorld War II
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.1912–2002United States Air ForceKorean War
Iven Carl Kincheloe1928–1958United States Air ForceKorean War
Bruce Cooper Clarke1901–1988United States ArmyKorean War
Edward C. Meyer1928–2020United States ArmyKorean War
Richard K. Sutherland1893–1966United States ArmyWorld War I
Endicott Peabody1920–1997United States NavyWorld War II
Geoffrey Keyes1888–1967United States ArmyWorld War II
Charles Pelot Summerall1867–1955United States ArmyWorld War I
Maury Maverick1895–1954United States ArmyWorld War I
Merritt A. Edson ★ MoH1897–1955United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
Dominic Salvatore Gentile1920–1951United States Air ForceWorld War II
Manton S. Eddy1892–1962United States ArmyWorld War I
Thomas Holcomb1879–1965United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
Ralph Puckett ★ MoH1926–2024United States ArmyVietnam War
Nguyen Van Toan1932–2005Army of the Republic of VietnamVietnam War
Daniel B. Allyn1959United States Army
John B. Coulter1891–1983World War I
John H. Church1892–1953United States ArmyWorld War I
Lewis Millett ★ MoH1920–2009United States ArmyWorld War II
Bart Burns1918–2007United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Theo Marcuse1920–1967United States NavyWorld War II
Maurice Rose1899–1945United States ArmyWorld War I
Laurence Stallings1894–1968United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr.1896–1990United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Mike O'Callaghan1929–2004Korean War
Edward L. Beach, Jr.1918–2002United States NavyWorld War II
George Decker1902–1980United States ArmyWorld War II
Raoul Magrin-Vernerey1892–1964Korean War
Frank W. Milburn1892–1962United States ArmyKorean War
Arthur Trudeau1902–1991United States ArmyKorean War
Chuck Horner1936United States Air ForceGulf War
Mike Calvert1913–1998British ArmyMalayan Emergency
James Earl Rudder1910–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Frank Bladin1898–1978Royal Australian Air ForceWorld War II
Robert T. Frederick1907–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Thomas S. Power1905–1970United States Air ForceWorld War II
Tom Harmon1919–1990World War II
Kenneth Walker ★ MoH1898–1943United States ArmyWorld War I
John D. Bulkeley ★ MoH1911–1996United States NavyWorld War II
Edward H. Brooks1893–1978United States ArmyWorld War II
William Orlando Darby1911–1945United States ArmyWorld War II
Jack H. Jacobs ★ MoH1945United States ArmyVietnam War
Jack Keane1943United States ArmyVietnam War
Merrill McPeak1936United States Air ForceVietnam War
Pete Peterson1935United States Air ForceVietnam War
John Galvin1929–2015United States ArmyVietnam War
Dick Rutan1938–2024United States Air ForceVietnam War
Paul X. Kelley1928–2019United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Robert Tessier1934–1990United States ArmyKorean War
Oscar Griswold1886–1959United States ArmyWorld War I
Julius Ochs Adler1892–1955United States ArmyWorld War I
William E. DePuy1919–1992United States ArmyWorld War II
Bud Day ★ MoH1925–2013United States Air ForceWorld War II
Walter D. Ehlers ★ MoH1921–2014United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert Lee Scott Jr.1908–2006United States Air ForceWorld War II
Wilber M. Brucker1894–1968World War I
John E. Hull1895–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
Frederick Kroesen1923–2020United States ArmyKorean War
David Hackworth1930–2005United States ArmyKorean War
Lafayette G. Pool1919–1991United States ArmyKorean War
George W. Casey, Sr.1922–1970United States ArmyKorean War
Charles C. Krulak1942United States Marine CorpsGulf War
Wayne A. Downing1940–2007United States ArmyGulf War
Barry McCaffrey1942United States ArmyGulf War
John H. Michaelis1912–1985United States ArmyKorean War
William Preston Lane1892–1967World War I
Franklin C. Sibert1891–1980United States ArmyWorld War I
Andrew Goodpaster1915–2005United States ArmyWorld War II
Lew Jenkins1916–1981World War II
Bolesław Gładych1918–2011Polish Air Force (1918-1939)World War II
Charles P. Hall1886–1953United States ArmyWorld War I
Harry Kinnard1915–2009United States ArmyWorld War II
Basil L. Plumley1920–2012United States ArmyWorld War II
John Ernest Dahlquist1896–1975United States ArmyWorld War II
John Dale Ryan1915–1983United States Air ForceWorld War II
Dudley W. Morton1907–1943United States NavyWorld War II
David McCampbell ★ MoH1910–1996United States NavyWorld War II
Richard E. Cavazos1929–2017United States ArmyVietnam War
George Joulwan1939United States ArmyVietnam War
Charles Norman Shay1924–2025United States ArmyKorean War
William Francis Buckley1928–1985Korean War
Richard Marshall1895–1973United States ArmyWorld War I
Roscoe B. Woodruff1891–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
William Benjamin Kean1897–1981United States ArmyWorld War I
William Kelly Harrison, Jr.1895–1987World War I
Louis Cukela ★ MoH1888–1956United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
John P. Lucas1890–1949United States ArmyWorld War I
John K. Singlaub1921–2022United States ArmyWorld War II
John W. Leonard1890–1974United States ArmyWorld War II
Kenneth D. Bailey ★ MoH1910–1942United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Maurice Britt ★ MoH1919–1995United States ArmyWorld War II
John Kizirian1928–2006United States ArmyWorld War II
William H. Blanchard1916–1966United States Air ForceWorld War II
William Howard Arnold1901–1976World War II
Ferdinand Thomas Unger1913–1999World War II
George Juskalian1914–2010United States ArmyWorld War II
Joseph M. Swing1894–1984World War II
Samuel W. Koster1919–2006United States ArmyWorld War II
Virgil R. Miller1900–1968World War II
Paul L. Freeman Jr.1907–1988United States ArmyWorld War II
Raymond Albert Wheeler1885–1974United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert H. Barrow1922–2008United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Henry Mucci1909–1997United States ArmyWorld War II
Stafford LeRoy Irwin1893–1955United States ArmyWorld War I
Harry J. Collins1895–1963United States ArmyWorld War I
Albert Blithe1923–1967United States ArmyKorean War
Joseph C. McConnell1922–1954United States Air ForceKorean War
William Raborn1905–1990United States NavyWorld War II
George Welch1918–1954United States Air ForceWorld War II
James Patrick Sutton1915–2005navyWorld War II
Gilbert R. Cook1889–1963United States ArmyWorld War II
Gordon Chung-Hoon1910–1979United States NavyWorld War II
Graves B. Erskine1897–1973United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Tommy Prince1915–1977Canadian ArmyKorean War
Dean Hess1917–2015United States Air ForceKorean War
Doyle Overton Hickey1892–1961United States ArmyKorean War
Charles W. Ryder1892–1960United States ArmyWorld War I
Paul Moore1919–2003United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Charles H. Gerhardt1895–1976United States ArmyWorld War II
Orlando Ward1891–1972United States ArmyWorld War I
Charles H. Corlett1889–1971United States ArmyWorld War I
Charles Henry Coolidge ★ MoH1921–2021United States ArmyWorld War II
Steve Pisanos1919–2016Royal Air ForceWorld War II
Charles H. MacDonald1914–2002United States Air ForceWorld War II
Alexander R. Bolling1895–1964United States ArmyWorld War II
Archibald Roosevelt1894–1979World War II
Ernest N. Harmon1894–1979United States ArmyWorld War II
Stanley Eric Reinhart1893–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
William A. Eddy1896–1962United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
John Shirley Wood1888–1966United States ArmyWorld War I
George Brett1886–1963United States ArmyWorld War I
Theodore E. Chandler1894–1945United States NavyWorld War I
Olin Earl Teague1910–1981Arkansas National GuardWorld War II
Phil Ferguson1903–1978United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Reuben Henry Tucker III1911–1970United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert Rosenthal1917–2007United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Harry Wickwire Foster1902–1964Canadian Armed ForcesWorld War II
André Moynet1921–1993French Air and Space ForceWorld War II
Guy Gabaldon1926–2006United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Eric Bols1904–1985British ArmyWorld War II
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II1912–1999United States NavyWorld War II
Sam S. Walker1925–2015United States ArmyVietnam War
John N. Abrams1946–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Robert L. Howard ★ MoH1939–2009Vietnam War
James L. Dozier1931United States ArmyVietnam War
James J. Lindsay1932–2023United States ArmyVietnam War
Ola L. Mize ★ MoH1931–2014Korean War
Kurt Chew-Een Lee1926–2014United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Leigh Ann Hester1982United States ArmyIraq War
John E. Davis1913–1990
LeRoy H. Anderson1906–1991United States Army
Sam Steiger1929–2012
Marius Eriksen, Jr.1922–2009Royal Norwegian Air Force
Hansford T. Johnson1936United States Air Force
Joshua L. Wheeler1975–2015United States Army
Jens A. Doe1891–1971World War I
William F. Marquat1894–1960United States ArmyWorld War I
Hugh John Casey1898–1981United States ArmyWorld War I
Leif J. Sverdrup1898–1976United States ArmyWorld War I
Hoyt Patrick Taylor1890–1964World War I
Hugh Aloysius Drum1879–1951United States ArmyWorld War I
John Hyland1912–1998United States NavyWorld War II
Keith L. Ware ★ MoH1915–1968United States ArmyWorld War II
Leon W. Johnson ★ MoH1904–1997United States Air ForceWorld War II
Louis W. Truman1908–2004United States ArmyWorld War II
Michael S. Davison1917–2006United States ArmyWorld War II
Nestor Chylak1922–1982United States ArmyWorld War II
James Philo Hagerstrom1921–1994United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Matt Urban ★ MoH1919–1995United States ArmyWorld War II
Bruce McCandless ★ MoH1911–1968United States NavyWorld War II
Paul D. Adams1906–1987United States ArmyWorld War II
Ruben Rivers ★ MoH1918–1944United States ArmyWorld War II
Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr.1915–2008World War II
Van T. Barfoot ★ MoH1919–2012United States ArmyWorld War II
Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath1905–1992British ArmyWorld War II
Manning Kimmel1913–1944United States NavyWorld War II
Jacob C. Vouza1892–1984World War II
James Benjamin Lampert1914–1978United States ArmyWorld War II
James H. Polk1911–1992United States ArmyWorld War II
Horace L. McBride1894–1962United States ArmyWorld War I
James Lawton Collins1882–1963United States ArmyWorld War I
John W. O'Daniel1894–1975United States ArmyKorean War
Young-Oak Kim1919–2005Korean War
Lawson P. Ramage ★ MoH1909–1990United States NavyKorean War
Bryant Moore1894–1951Korean War
Carl H. Dodd ★ MoH1925–1996United States ArmyKorean War
Arthur D. Simons1918–1979United States ArmyWorld War II
Hamilton H. Howze1908–1998United States ArmyWorld War II
Hanford MacNider1889–1968United States ArmyWorld War II
J. H. Binford Peay III1940United States ArmyGulf War
Ross A. McGinnis ★ MoH1987–2006United States ArmyIraq War
Clark L. Ruffner1903–1982United States ArmyKorean War
Paul J. Mueller1892–1964United States ArmyKorean War
George Andrew Davis ★ MoH1920–1952United States Air ForceKorean War
James Jabara1923–1966United States Air ForceKorean War
John R. Alison1912–2011United States Air ForceKorean War
Phillip Davidson1915–1996United States ArmyKorean War
David Lee "Tex" Hill1915–2007United States Air ForceKorean War
Donald Blakeslee1917–2008United States Air ForceKorean War
Edward A. Bennett ★ MoH1920–1983United States ArmyKorean War
David G. Perkins1957United States ArmyIraq War
Frederick Augustus Irving1894–1995United States ArmyWorld War I
Laurence Curtis1893–1989World War II
Henry Louis Larsen1890–1962United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
Ernest J. Dawley1886–1973United States ArmyWorld War I
Charles Carpenter1913–1966World War II
James Okubo ★ MoH1920–1967442nd Infantry RegimentWorld War II
Philippe Ragueneau1917–2003World War II
Raymond O. Barton1889–1963United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert S. Johnson1920–1998United States Air ForceWorld War II
Victor Heintz1876–1968World War I
Walter M. Robertson1888–1954United States ArmyWorld War I
Edmund Sebree1898–1966United States ArmyWorld War II
Louis Henkin1917–2010World War II
James Megellas1917–2020United States ArmyWorld War II
Torbert Macdonald1917–1976United States NavyWorld War II
Willard Bowsky1907–1944United States ArmyWorld War II
Charles D. W. Canham1901–1963United States ArmyWorld War II
Ignatius Wolfington1920–2004World War II
Jacques Andrieux1917–2005World War II
Royce Williams ★ MoH1925United States NavyVietnam War
William R. Richardson1929–2023Cold War
Louis C. Wagner, Jr.1932–2025United States ArmyVietnam War
Paul F. Gorman1927–2026United States ArmyVietnam War
Sidney Shachnow1934–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Jay R. Vargas ★ MoH1938United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Paul K. Van Riper1938United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Frederick M. Franks, Jr.1936United States ArmyCold War
James E. Livingston ★ MoH1940United States Marine CorpsCold War
John W. Foss1933–2020United States ArmyCold War
John W. Hendrix1942United States ArmyCold War
James T. Hill1946United States ArmyVietnam War
James E. Williams ★ MoH1930–1999United States NavyVietnam War
Geronimo Pratt1947–201182nd Airborne DivisionVietnam War
Floyd James Thompson1933–2002United States ArmyVietnam War
Frederick Edgar Ferguson ★ MoH1939United States ArmyVietnam War
Glenn K. Otis1929–2013United States ArmyVietnam War
Bo Gritz1939–2026Vietnam War