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SEE ALSO-AFRICAN AMERICAN MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIAL
A LIST OF EVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT. ONLY SUPREME ACTS OF HEROISM ARE RECOGNIZED BY THE AWARD OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR.
ALTHOUGH WOUNDED TWICE SGT. CONNOR LEAD HIS PATROL THROUGH NEARLY IMPREGNABLE MORTAR CONCENTRATIONS DURING THE INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE AND DESTROYED THE ENEMIES POSITION. FOR HIS BRAVERY SGT. JAMES P. CONNOR WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR.
DURING THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG THEN PRIVATE MABERRY WAS ABLE TO CAPTURE THE FLAG OF THE 7TH NORTH CAROLINA. LATER PROMOTED TO SERGEANT, JOHN B. MAYBERRY WAS AWARDED THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR FOR HIS HEROIC CONDUCT.
AS PART OF THE INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA SGT. NELSON WAS IN COMMAND OF A HEAVY MORTAR SECTION IN TUNISIA WHEN THE GERMANS ATTACKED. UNDER INTENSE FIRE HE DIRECTED A CONCENTRATED BARRAGE THAT HALTED THE GERMAN ADVANCE. SGT.NELSON WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED AND FO ...
FROM APRIL 6TH INTO THE 7TH, LEWES WAS SHELLED FOR TWENTY-TWO HOURS WITH THE BRITISH FIRING AS MANY AS 800 PROJECTILES INTO THE TOWN INCLUDING THE FIRST USE OF CONGREVE ROCKET AGAINST THE AMERICANS DURING THE WAR OF 1812.
DEDICATED TO HONOR THE SACRIFICE OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN WAR AND PEACE.
IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF ALL KOREAN WAR VETERANS WHO SERVED AND DIED FOR FREEDOM.
THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO REMEMBER THOSE MEN AND WOMEN MISSING IN ACTION WHILE SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THE DELAWARE MEMORIAL BRIDGE IS A SET OF TWIN SUSPENSION BRIDGES CROSSING THE DELAWARE RIVER. THE BRIDGES ARE DEDICATED TO THOSE FROM NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II, KOREAN WAR AND THE VIETNAM WAR. ON THE DELAWARE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE IS ...
THE DELAWARE MEMORIAL BRIDGE IS A SET OF TWIN SUSPENSION BRIDGES CROSSING THE DELAWARE RIVER. THE BRIDGES ARE DEDICATED TO THOSE FROM NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II, KOREAN WAR AND THE VIETNAM WAR. ON THE DELAWARE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE IS A ...
REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL FRANCIS DU PONT UNITED STATES NAVY STATUE WAS ERECTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES IN RECOGNITION OF HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE IN THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR AND THE CIVIL WAR.
IN COMMEMORATION OF DELAWARE'S PATRIOTIC DEAD WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY DURING THE REBELLION OF 1861-1865
GENERAL TORBERT, A WEST POINT GRADUATE, CLASS OF 1855, SERVED WITH DISTINCTION DURING THE CIVIL WAR AS COMMANDER 1ST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE AND CHIEF OF CAVALRY, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. HE WAS PROUD TO CALL MILFORD AND SUSSEX COUNTY HIS HOME.
