MEDAL OF HONOR

See left. President Biden presents Medal of Honor to SP5 Dwight Wayne Birdwell, Army, Oklahoma City and OKMHF Class of 2017. A Birdwell Silver Star was upgraded to a Medal of Honor in 2022. Click  image for video interview of Dwight.

Medal of Honor recipients are  inducted into our Hall of Fame by Board policy.  We believe we have identified all recipients with an Oklahoma connection.  There are 35 members of the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame who received the Medal of Honor. Each has an inspiring story that may be read at our History Center data base.

RED RIVER VALLEY WAR

Frontiersman Amos Chapman, Army, Fort Supply/Seiling.  

WORLD WAR I

LTG George Price Hays, Army, Okarche; CPL Samuel L. Sampler, Army, Altus; and 

CPL Harold L. Turner, Army, Seminole/Little.

WORLD WAR II

Maj Kenneth D. Bailey, Marine Corps, Pawnee; TSGT Charles F. Carey, Army, Canadian; LTC Ernest L. Childers, Army, Broken Arrow; SSG John R. Crews, Army, Golden/Oklahoma City; CDR Ernest Edwin Evans, Navy, Pawnee; 1LT Donald J. Gott,  Army Air Corps, Arnett; SGT Roy William Woodrow Harmon, Army, Talala & Yale;  SSG George Dennis Keathley, Army, Lawton; PVT Harold G. Kiner, Army, Aline; CPT Richard M. McCool, Jr, Navy, Tishomingo; SGT Troy A. McGill, Army, Ada; 1LT Jack C. Montgomery, Army, Long; PFC Manuel Perez, Jr, Army, Oklahoma City; PFC John N. Reese, Jr, Army, Muskogee; SSG Ruben Rivers, Army, Tecumseh/OKC; Pfc Albert Ernest Schwab, Marine Corps, Tulsa; Col John Lucien Smith, Marine Corps, Lexington; COL Jack L. Treadwell, Army, Snyder; LtCol Leon Robert Vance, Air Force, Enid; and PFC Herman C. Wallace, Army, Marlow.

KOREA

SFC Tony K. Burris, Army, Blanchard; LTC Raymond Harvey, Army, Sulphur; and CPT Frederick F. Henry, Army, Vian.

VIETNAM

CSM Bennie G. Adkins, Army, Waurika; SP5 Dwight Wayne Birdwell, Army, Oklahoma City; SP4 Edward Allen DeVore, Jr., Army, Henryetta; SFC Melvin Morris, Army, Okmulgee; SGT Larry Stanley Pierce, Army, Wewoka; CPT Riley L. Pitts, Army, Fallis; CPT Gary M. Rose, Army, Lawton; and SP4 Donald P. Sloat, Army, Coweta.