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July 17: Medal of Honor Actions

5 Medal of Honors earned on July 17 between 1882 and 1943.

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July 17, 1882

Indian Campaigns · Big Dry Fork (Chevelon's Fork), Arizona · 4 recipients

Thomas Cruse Second Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1882

George Horace Morgan Second Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1882 CT Charles Taylor First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1882

Frank West First Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1882

July 17, 1943

World War II · near Agrigento, Sicily, Sicily · 1 recipient

David Crowder Waybur First Lieutenant · Army World War II · 1943