Valor Record

An unofficial public archive of Medal of Honor recipients

U.S. soldiers wade from a Coast Guard landing craft toward Omaha Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944.

Unofficial archive · Every recorded recipient

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and beyond

“This medal does not belong to me. It belongs to the exceptional men who fought with me.”

James Capers Jr., Medal of Honor recipient, June 2026. Published by the U.S. Marine Corps on DVIDS.
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Chief Photographer's Mate Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard. Public domain. Photograph source.

3,503 Recipients
20 Conflicts in the record
626 Marked as posthumous

From the Civil War to the war on terror

The same standard, every war. Open an era.

A 19th-century print of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Civil War

1,527 awards

 Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry in 1890.

Indian Wars

414 awards

 A French and American raiding party of the 168th Infantry in France, 17 March 1918.

World War I

126 awards

 Landing craft and tracked vehicles from USS Sanborn off Iwo Jima in 1945.

World War II

472 awards

 Marines of the 1st Marine Division at the Chosin Reservoir in December 1950.

Korea

153 awards

 U.S. Army UH-1D helicopters in Vietnam in 1966.

Vietnam

272 awards

 U.S. Army soldiers on patrol in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.

War on Terror

27 awards

Era photographs are U.S. government works or Creative Commons files. Credits are on each image’s Wikimedia page, linked from the battle hubs that use them.

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