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Medal of Honor Recipients from California

142 Medals of Honor are credited to California, and 60 recipients were born there; 222 are buried in the state.

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Louis Richard Rocco Warrant Officer · Army Vietnam War · 1970 Joseph Charles Rodriguez Sergeant · Army Korean War · 1951 Clinton Lavor Romesha Staff Sergeant · Army Afghanistan · 2009 Gary Michael Rose Sergeant · Army Vietnam War · 1970 George Taro "Joe" Sakato Private · Army World War II · 1944 LS Lloyd Martin Seibert Sergeant · Army World War I · 1918 George Franklin Shiels Major Surgeon · Army Philippine Insurrection · 1899 William Ralph Shockley Private First Class · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ France Silva Private · Marine Corps Boxer Rebellion · 1900 ES Eugene P. Smith Chief Watertender · Navy Interim 1915–1916 · 1915 OS Otto Smith Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 WS William Smith Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 ES Edward Stanley Corporal · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 AS Andrew Vincent Stoltenberg Gunner's Mate Second Class · Navy Philippine Insurrection · 1900 BS Benoni Strivson Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1868 James Elms Swett First Lieutenant · Marine Corps World War II · 1943 Ted Takayuki Tanouye Technical Sergeant · Army World War II · 1944 ✦ JT James Allen Taylor First Lieutenant · Army Vietnam War · 1967 HT Henry Thompson Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1878 George Benton Turner Private First Class · Army World War II · 1945 RV Robert M. Viale Second Lieutenant · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ Ysmael Reyes Villegas Staff Sergeant · Army World War II · 1945 ✦ RV Robert Volz Seaman · Navy Spanish-American War · 1898 Robert H. von Schlick Private · Army Boxer Rebellion · 1900 Keith Lincoln Ware Lieutenant Colonel · Army World War II · 1944 David Crowder Waybur First Lieutenant · Army World War II · 1943 AW Amos Weaver Sergeant · Army Philippine Insurrection · 1899 CW Chester Howard West First Sergeant · Army World War I · 1918 AW Axel Westermark Seaman · Navy Boxer Rebellion · 1900 Louis Williams Seaman · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1883 Louis Williams Captain of the Hold · Navy Interim 1871–1899 · 1884 Edward Bancroft Williston First Lieutenant · Army Civil War · 1864 SW Samuel Woods Seaman · Navy Civil War · 1863 Kenneth Lee Worley Lance Corporal · Marine Corps Vietnam War · 1968 ✦ Maximo Yabes First Sergeant · Army Vietnam War · 1967 ✦ Robert Harley Young Private First Class · Army Korean War · 1950 ✦ JY John P. Yount Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1871 WZ William F. Zion Private · Marine Corps Boxer Rebellion · 1900