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February 2: Medal of Honor Actions

6 Medal of Honors earned on February 2 between 1864 and 1968.

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February 2, 1864

Civil War · Newport Barracks, North Carolina · 3 recipients

EJ Erastus W. Jewett First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1864

Josiah O. Livingston First Lieutenant & Adjutant · Army Civil War · 1864

Theodore Safford Peck First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1864

February 2, 1938

Interim 1920–1940 · off California Coast, California · 1 recipient

Carlton Barmore Hutchins Lieutenant · Navy Interim 1920–1940 · 1938 ✦

February 2, 1945

World War II · near Loi-Kang, Burma · 1 recipient

JK Jack Llewellyn Knight First Lieutenant · Army World War II · 1945 ✦

February 2, 1968

Vietnam War · Cam Lo District, Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam · 1 recipient

Larry Leonard Maxam Corporal · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1968 ✦