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Pages in category "Recipients of the Military Cross" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,163 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By partial comparison, as of June 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense shows 3,008 awarded to Navy recipients [2] and 1,081 to Marines Corps recipients, [3] for acts of valor during World War II. The Navy Cross was also occasionally awarded to foreign personnel serving with allied forces - for example, Commander Gordon Bridson and Leading ...
In 1989 Lord Aldington initiated and won a record £1.5 million (plus £500,000 costs) in a libel case against Nikolai Tolstoy and Nigel Watts, who had accused him of war crimes in Austria during his involvement in the Repatriation of Cossacks at Lienz, part of Operation Keelhaul at the end of the Second World War. [2]
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
this US DOD source only reports US Navy and US Marine Corps recipients of the Navy Cross; Sterner, Doug (ed.). "Service Cross". homeofheroes.com. this long standing private source believes it is "99.9% complete" for all military, civilian and allied recipients of the Top 2 (above Silver Star) "Kilo 3/3 Personal Awards".
William James Johnston, Sr., (August 15, 1918 – May 29, 1990) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Francis Junior Pierce (December 7, 1924 – December 21, 1986) was a United States Navy hospital corpsman in World War II who received the nation's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor.
The Medal of Honor was presented to his wife and 2-year-old son, Sherwood Hallman II, during a ceremony at Fairmount Park Military Police headquarters in Philadelphia on May 31, 1945. The presentation to the family was made by Brigadier General Malcolm F. Lindsey, Commanding General Indiantown Gap Military Cemetery.