Valor Park - National Museum USAF Memorial Park - Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
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Memorial to the 58 Medal of Honor recipients of the Air Force.
Waymark Code: WMVZMM
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2017
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County of memorial: Montgomery County
Location of memorial: 1100 Spaatz Street, Memorial Park, Wright-Patterson AFB
Memorial erected by: Miami Valley Military Affairs Association
Memorial dedicated: May 11, 2002

Memorial Palque Text:

VALOR PARK
Dedicated to the United States Air Force
MEDAL OF HONOR
RECIPIENTS
Presented by the
MIAMI VALLEY MILITARY
AFFAIRS ASSOC.

Names on the black columns:
  • 1st LT. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker - September 25, 1918
  • 2nd LT. Frank Luke, Jr. - September 29, 1918
  • 2nd LT. Erwin Russel Bleckley - October 06, 1918
  • 1st LT. Harold Ernest Goettler - October 06, 1918
  • BRIG. GEN. James Harold Doolittle - April 18, 1942
  • CAPT. Harl Pease, Jr. - August 06 & 07, 1942
  • COL. Demas Thurlow Craw - November 08, 1942
  • MAJ. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton - November 08, 1942
  • BRIG. GEN. Kenneth Newton Walker - January 05, 1943
  • 1st LT. Jack Warren Mathis - March 18, 1943
  • SGT. Maynard Harrison Snuffy Smith, Sr. - May 01, 1943
  • 2nd LT. Joseph Raymond Sarnoski - June 16, 1943
  • MAJ. Jay Zeamer - June 16, 1943
  • 2nd LT. John Cary Red Morgan - July 28, 1943
  • 2nd LT. Lloyd Herbert Hughes - August 01, 1943
  • COL. John Riley Kane - August 01, 1943
  • MAJ. John Louis Jerstad - August 01, 1943
  • LTCOL. Addison Earl Baker - August 01, 1943
  • COL. Leon William Johnson - August 01, 1943
  • MAJ. Ralph Cheli - August 18, 1943
  • COL. Neel Ernest Kearby - October 11, 1943
  • MAJ. Raymond Harrell Wilkins - November 02, 1943
  • TECH. SGT Forrest Lee Woody Vosler - December 20, 1943
  • LTCOL. James Howell Howard - January 11, 1944
  • 2nd LT. Walter Edward Truemper - February 20, 1944
  • 1st LT. William Robert Lawley, Jr. - February 20, 1944
  • SGT Archibald Mathies - February 20, 1944
  • 1st LT. Edward Stanley Michael - April 11, 1944
  • LTCOL. Leon Robert Vance, Jr. - June 05, 1944
  • 2nd LT. David Richard Kingsley - June 23, 1944
  • 1st LT. Donald Dale Pucket - July 09, 1944
  • CAPT. Darrell Robins Lindsey - August 09, 1944
  • MAJ. Richard Ira Bong - October 10 - November 15, 1944
  • MAJ. Horace Seaver Carswell, Jr. - October 26, 1944
  • 2nd LT. Robert Edward Femoyer - November 02, 1944
  • 1st LT. Donald Joseph Gott- November 09, 1944
  • 2nd LT. William Edward Metzger, Jr. - November 09, 1944
  • BRIG. GEN. Frederick Walker Castle - December 24, 1944
  • MAJ. Thomas Buchanan McGuire, Jr. - December 25 & 26, 1944
  • MAJ. William Arthur Shomo - January 11, 1945
  • SSGT Henry Eugene Red Erwin - April 12, 1945
  • 1st LT. Raymond Larry Knight - April 24 & 25, 1945
  • MAJ. Louis Joseph Sebille - August 05, 1950
  • CAPT. John Springer Walmsley, Jr. - September 14, 1951
  • MAJ. George Andrew Davis, Jr. - February 10, 1952
  • MAJ. Charles Joseph Loring, Jr. - November 22, 1952
  • MAJ. Bernard Francis Fisher - March 10, 1966
  • AIRMAN 1/C William H. Pitsenbarger - Apr 11, 1966
  • CAPT. Hilliard Almond Wilbanks - February 24, 1967
  • MAJ. Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen - March 10, 1967
  • LTCOL. Leo Keith Thorsness - April 19, 1967
  • COL. George Everett Bud Day - August 26, 1967
  • CAPT. Lance Peter Sijan - Nov 09, 1967
  • CAPT. Gerald Orren Young - November 09, 1967
  • LTCOL. Joe Madison Jackson - May 12, 1968
  • COL. William Atkinson Jones, III - September 01, 1968
  • CAPT. James Philip Fleming - November 26, 1968
  • SGT John Lee Levitow - February 24, 1969
  • CAPT. Steven Logan Bennett - June 29, 1972

Type of Memorial: Non-Specific Memorial

In Honor Of: Medal of Honor Recipients

Marker Text:
Dedicated to the United States Air Force MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS

Date of dedication: May 11, 2002

Who Put it Here?: Miami Valley Military Affairs Association

Description of Memorial:
Futuristic Jet aircraft, four of them, flying off to the sky. Away from 11 black columns which hold the names and identification of 58 Air Force recipients of the Medal of Honor. In the center is a slanted plain of polished marble inscribed with the Air Force Medal of Honor. All of this resting on a bed of dedicated bricks and enclosed by a half circle of stone wall.

Wars mentioned (Multi-war only): Not listed
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