When last seen he was fighting ferociously against an overwhelming number of enemy soldiers. Miraculously, Miyamura survived the battle and became a prisoner of war for 28 months.
His was the first Medal of Honor to be classified Top Secret. Brigadier General Ralph Osborne would later explain during the official announcement of Miyamura's medal, "If the Reds knew what he had done to a good number of their soldiers just before he was taken prisoner, they might have taken revenge on this young man.
He might not have come back. His medal was presented to him by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in October at the White House. Still going strong at over 80 years old, Adkins was serving as an Intelligence Sergeant with Detachment A, 5th Special Forces Group in the Army when he gained recognition for his actions during combat operations at Camp A Shau in Vietnam from March 9 to 12, When the camp was attacked by a large North Vietnamese and Viet Cong force in the early morning hours, Sergeant First Class Adkins rushed through intense enemy fire and manned a mortar position continually adjusting fire for the camp, despite incurring wounds as the mortar pit received several direct hits from enemy mortars.
Upon learning that several soldiers were wounded near the center of camp, he temporarily turned the mortar over to another soldier, ran through exploding mortar rounds and dragged several comrades to safety. As the hostile fire subsided, Sergeant First Class Adkins exposed himself to sporadic sniper fire while carrying his wounded comrades to the camp dispensary During the early morning hours of March 10, enemy forces launched their main attack and within two hours, Sergeant First Class Adkins was the only man firing a mortar weapon.
When all mortar rounds were expended, Sergeant First Class Adkins began placing effective recoilless rifle fire upon enemy positions. Despite receiving additional wounds from enemy rounds exploding on his position, Sergeant First Class Adkins fought off intense waves of attacking Viet Cong. Sergeant First Class Adkins eliminated numerous insurgents with small arms fire after withdrawing to a communications bunker with several soldiers.
Running extremely low on ammunition, he returned to the mortar pit, gathered vital ammunition and ran through intense fire back to the bunker. After being ordered to evacuate the camp, Sergeant First Class Adkins and a small group of soldiers destroyed all signal equipment and classified documents, dug their way out of the rear of the bunker and fought their way out of the camp. While carrying a wounded soldier to the extraction point he learned that the last helicopter had already departed.
Sergeant First Class Adkins led the group while evading the enemy until they were rescued by helicopter on March 12, During the thirty eight hour battle and forty eight hours of escape and evasion, fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoilless rifles, small arms, and hand grenades, it was estimated that Sergeant First Class Adkins killed between one hundred thirty five and one hundred seventy five of the enemy while sustaining eighteen different wounds to his body.
Adkins has been married to his wife, Mary, for 59 years, and together they have raised five children. In , then-Major Leo Thorsness was assigned to the Air Force's th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Thailand as a "Wild Weasel," charged with destroying enemy surface-to-air missiles and antiaircraft radar before the main strike force reached the target, thus protecting the strike force.
On April 19, , it was on one of these "Wild Weasel" missions that Maj. Thorsness gained recognition and was selected to receive a Medal of Honor: As pilot of an F aircraft, Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness was on a surface-to-air missile suppression mission over North Vietnam.
Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness and his wingman attacked and silenced a surface-to-air missile site with air-to-ground missiles and then destroyed a second surface-to-air missile site with bombs. Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness circled the descending parachutes to keep the crewmembers in sight and relay their position to the Search and Rescue Center. During this maneuver, a MIG was sighted in the area. Because his aircraft was low on fuel, he was forced to depart the area in search of a tanker.
As he approached the area, he spotted four MIG aircraft and immediately initiated an attack on the MIGs, damaging one and driving the others away from the rescue scene. When it became apparent that an aircraft in the area was critically low on fuel and the crew would have to abandon the aircraft unless they could reach a tanker, Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness, although critically short on fuel himself, helped to avert further possible loss of life and a friendly aircraft by recovering at a forward operating base, thus allowing the aircraft in emergency fuel condition to refuel safely.
Air Force. Though Thorsness was recognized with the Medal of Honor in , he did not receive it until Eleven days after the mission cited above, he was shot down over North Vietnam and captured, along with his electronic warfare officer, Capt.
Hitting its peak amid the early to mid noughties' wave of popularity for WW2 games, it is worth remembering that in their day these works were gaining a wider audience than the other, lesser known entity Call of Duty.
Oh how things change. In recent times, it has struggled to catch up and indeed hold its own against the giants of the modern FPS genre; Call Of Duty and EA's newest foray into this market - the Battlefield series.
Here we are going to take you on a walk down memory lane to relive the franchise in all its glory. Medal Of Honor: Airborne Ranking the lowest on the list is this effort from The first MoH game to be released on the seventh generation of consoles, the main problem this game has is that it struggles to make use of the new opportunities the hardware provides. Egypt had its Order of the Golden Collar, the Roman legions used decorations to honor their elite fighters, and Sweden has the distinction of having quite possibly the oldest military decorations that are still employed to this day.
Another good example is the Poland War Order of Military Valour, presented for the first time in But they can also be presented to a full unit. The military medals discussed here are decorations, not awards. The Medal of Honor is the highest military honor presented for valor. It is also the only military award that is congressionally approved for presentation by the President. The Medal of Honor actually comes in three different versions: the U. The first Medal of Honor was created for the U.
Navy in The U. Army created its own Medal of Honor the following year. The Air Force version of the Medal of Honor was designed in Service Crosses are the second-highest military medal awarded for valor.
The Distinguished Service Cross was first awarded by the Army in
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