HALL OF FAME

The Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame honors the men and women of Oklahoma who served in the Uniformed Services of the United States, demonstrated extraordinary acts of courage, heroism or gallantry, and who continue to serve our country and communities today.

We have inducted 247 individuals and 9 units/organizations into our Hall of Fame during the twenty-five year period of 1999-2024. The nine special groups include: USS Oklahoma, the Buffalo Soldiers, the Oklahoma ROTC Centennial, Oklahoma Military Academy, the Oklahoma Army & Air National Guard, Oklahoma's WWII Army Rangers, and Oklahoma's Code Talkers of the Choctaw, Comanche and Pawnee.

Each member of the Hall of Fame has been provided an 11x14 framed certificate signed by the Governor of Oklahoma. It includes a replica eagle feather to remind one of our ethos of "Spirit of a Warrior, Heart of a Patriot. Members also received a professionally rendered and framed pen/ink portrait sketch, and a handsome 2.5" engraved medallion with red/white/blue ribbon lanyard.

Our searchable Hall of Fame database is hosted at the Oklahoma History Center. Click here for access. When you access this database you will be leaving this website.

You may search by last name, first name, year, or award. Beginning in 2014, inductees who were alive at the time of induction have video interviews following their biography.

Our 247 individual honorees have collectively been awarded over 700 decorations for valor: They include 36 Medals of Honor, 34 Distinguished Service Crosses, 135 Silver Stars, 93 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 206 Bronze Stars, 200 Purple Hearts - and 19 Prisoner of War Medals.

We maintain a detailed Excel data base of all honorees that includes biographical, valor and meritorious service awards, and service in conflicts . If you would like a PDF copy of this 8 page report, simply send an email request to info@okmhf.org

MEMBERS 1999-2012

Note:

* indicates Medal of Honor

** indicates Dollar Service Award

1999-2012

1999 LTC Ernest L. Childers *, Army, Broken Arrow

1999 SSG John R. Crews *, Army, Golden/Oklahoma City

1999 RADM John Elson Kirkpatrick, Navy, Oklahoma City

1999 1LT Jack C. Montgomery *, Army, Long

1999 GEN Dennis J. Reimer, Army, Medford

1999 MG Clarence L. Tinker, Army Air Corps, Pawhuska

2000 MG Frederick A. Daugherty, Army, Oklahoma City

2000 Owen K. Garriott, PhD, Navy/NASA, Enid

2000 RADM Thomas F. Hall, Navy, Barnsdall

2000 SGT Bill Mauldin, Army, Oklahoma City

2000 CPT Riley L. Pitts *, Army, Fallis

2000 MajGen Ray L. Smith, Marine Corps, Shidler

2000 LtGen Thomas P. Stafford, Air Force/NASA, Weatherford

2001 Capt Henry Louis Bellmon, Marine Corps, Tonkawa/ Billings

2001 LtGen Richard A. Burpee, Air Force, Oklahoma City

2001 CPL Charles Joyce Chibitty, Army (Code Talker), Medicine Park

2001 ADM William J. Crowe, Jr., Navy, Oklahoma City

2001 COL Inez Haynes, Army (Nurse Corps), El Reno

2002 LTC R. Neil Brittan, Army, Waukomis

2002 MAJ Quince L. Brown, Jr, Army Air Corps, Bristow

2002 RADM B. Hayden Crawford, Navy, Tulsa

2002 Gen Bennie L. Davis, Air Force, McAlester

2002 MG William Carl Garrison, Army, Alfalfa County

2002 MG Patrick J. Hurley, Army, Lehigh

2002 BG Glen C. Long, Army, Roger Mills County

2002 SGT James E. McNiece, Army, Maysville/Ponca City

2002 BrigGen Joseph W. Turner, Air Force, Tulsa

2002 LTG LaVern Erick Weber, Army, Lone Wolf

2002 COL Pendleton Woods, Army, Oklahoma City

2004 MCPON Delbert D. Black, Navy, Orr

2004 CSM Sam A. Cluck, Army, Wewoka

2004 1SG Sonia B. Davis, Army, Tuskahoma

2004 Capt Donald F. Dickey, Marine Corps, Cordell

2004 MajGen Jay T. Edwards, Air Force, Oklahoma City

2004 COL Lee F. Gilstrap, Army, Greer County

2004 COL Harry W. Hughes, Army, Vinson

2004 SGT Ralph N. Lawson, Army, Catoosa

2004 COL Charles H. Richmond, Army, Oklahoma City

2004 BG William Rex Wilson, Army, Purcell

2005 Col Gwen Grover Atkinson, AAC/Air Force, Oklahoma City

2005 MajGen William P. Bowden, Air Force, Oklahoma City

2005 LT Vernon R. Butler, Navy, Calvin

2005 LtCol Robert Edwin Hamilton, Marine Corps, Oklahoma City

2005 Col Robert S. Johnson, Army Air Corps, Lawton

2005 CW4 William C. Mitchell, Jr, Army, Overbrook

2005 LTC James F. Murphy, Army, Oklahoma City

2005 Sgt Jack Robert Skaggs, Marine Corps, Norman

2005 SGT Bill D. Voss, Army, Edmond

2006 BG Otwa Tilden Autry, Army, Gracemont

2006 RADM Lewis Elliott Coley, Navy, Oklahoma City

2006 LTG George Price Hays *, Army, Okarche

2006 CPL Harry Russell Hoots, Sr., Army, Oklahoma City

2006 Gen Billy Martin Minter, Air Force, Oklahoma City

2006 PFC Manuel Perez, Jr *, Army, Oklahoma City

2006 SSG Ruben Rivers *, Army, Tecumseh/ OKC

2006 COL James O. Smith, Army, Wetumka

2006 CWO Bill Stearns, Army, Guthrie

2006 MG Toney Stricklin, Army, Lawton

2007 RADM Raymond B. Ackerman, Navy, Oklahoma City

2007 MajGen John H. Admire, Marine Corps, Tulsa

2007 LtCol Charles N. Beecham, Air Force/Army Air Corps, Minco/El Reno

2007 RADM Jack E. Buffington, Navy, Westville

2007 MG Douglas O. Dollar, Army, Cookson/Stillwater

2007 SSG Billie A. Hall, Army, Stillwater

2007 LTC Jack O. Johnson, Army, Oklahoma City

2007 COL Norman A. Lamb **, Army, Canute/Enid

2007 CAPT Richard M. McCool, Jr *, Navy, Tishomingo

2007 LtCol William R. Melton, Marine Corps, Oklahoma City

2007 MGySgt Vernon Tsoodle, Marine Corps, Mountain View/Carnegie

2008 COL Robert Abraham, Army, Bethany

2008 TSGT Paul J. Andert, Army, Tulsa

2008 LtCol Karl K. Dittmer, Air Force, El Reno

2008 SGT Phillip L. Driskill **, Army, Nowata

2008 GEN Tommy Ray Franks, Army, Wynnewood

2008 GySgt V. D. Mitchell, Marine Corps, Madill

2008 SGT Elmer J. Morris, Army, Loco/Madill

2008 MajGen Stanley F.H. Newman, Air Force, Oklahoma City

2008 LtCol James C. Null, Air Force, Oklahoma City

2008 1SG Pascal Cleatus Poolaw, Army, Mountain View

2008 CPL Samuel L. Sampler *, Army, Altus

2008 CPT Lester T. Snow, Army, Seiling

2008 COL Jack L. Treadwell *, Army, Snyder

2008 CPL Harold L. Turner *, Army, Seminole/Little

2009 SFC D. C. Brewer, Army, Avery

2009 BG George M. Donovan, Army, Provence

2009 SP4 Dennis W. Drullinger, Army, Tulsa

2009 CDR Ernest Edwin Evans *, Navy, Pawnee

2009 LTG William E. Potts, Army, Oklahoma City

2009 COL Cyril Richard Rescorla, Army, Norman

2009 MG Teddy H. Sanford, Army, Pawnee

2009 Pfc Albert Ernest Schwab *, Marine Corps, Tulsa

2009 LtCol Leon Robert Vance *, Air Force, Enid

2009 LtGen Harry M. Wyatt, III **, Air Force, Stillwater

2010 BG Dana D. Batey**, Army, Midwest City

2010 LTG Jerry Max Bunyard, Army, Altus

2010 SSgt John R. Dale, Marine Corps, Tonkawa/Three Sands

2010 LTC Raymond Harvey *, Army, Sulphur

2010 MG Roy Victor Hoffman, Army, OK Territory

2010 Col Robert Edward Howard, Jr, Marine Corps, Tulsa

2010 PVT Harold G. Kiner *, Army, Aline

2010 LTC Edwin Price Ramsey, Army, Claremore

2010 Col John Lucien Smith *, Marine Corps, Lexington

2010 CPT Gary Wayne Vance, Sr, Army, Pawnee

2011 1LT Donald J. Gott *, Army Air Corps, Arnett

2011 LCpl Dale K. Graham **, Marine Corps, Dibble

2011 MAJ Fred A. Hancock, Army, Oktaha

2011 LTC Oren Lee Peters, Army, Edmond

2011 COL A. T. Pumphrey, Army, Dill City

2011 SSG George G. Red Elk, Army, Lawton

2011 PFC John N. Reese, Jr *, Army, Muskogee

2011 COL Joe B. Thurston, Army, Alex

2011 Maj Henry Wildfang, Marine Corps, Midwest City

2012 MajGen LaRita A. Aragon**, Air Force, Dale

2012 CSM Everett Bagley, Jr, Army, Midwest City

2012 Maj Kenneth D. Bailey *, Marine Corps, Pawnee

2012 Capt Boyd L. Barclay, Marine Corps, Oklahoma City

2012 Frontiersman Amos Chapman *, Army, Fort Supply/Seiling

2012 Col Charles B. DeBellevue, Air Force, Edmond

2012 CPT Vincent A. Kimberlin, Army, Healdton

2012 LTC Orville O. Munson, Army, Tahlequah

2012 Capt Johnny Lee Prichard, Marine Corps, Oklahoma City

MEMBERS 2013-2024

Note:

* indicates Medal of Honor

** indicates Dollar Service Award

2013-2024

2013 LTC Dudley J. Britton, Army, Turley

2013 GEN Edwin H. Burba, Jr, Army, McAlester

2013 SFC Tony K. Burris *, Army, Blanchard

2013 CPT Frederick F. Henry *, Army, Vian

2013 CAPT Robert J. Kelsey, Navy, Lawton

2013 MG Nicholas S. Krawciw, Army, Tulsa

2013 LTC Jerry P. Orr **, Army, Lawton

2013 MAJ Fredrick J. Ransbottom, Army, Oklahoma City

2013 LtCol William R. Schwertfeger, Air Force, Enid

2013 LTC Michael E. Sloniker, Army, Lawton

2014 COL William A. Ahrberg, Army, Stillwater

2014 TSGT Charles F. Carey *, Army, Canadian

2014 MajGen Jerry D. Holmes, Air Force, Jenks

2014 CSM Jack G. Joplin, Army, Bromide

2014 SGT Troy A. McGill *, Army, Ada

2014 Capt Joseph H. Powers, Air Force, Tulsa

2014 BrigGen James R. Risner, Air Force, Tulsa

2014 1SG John L. Sloat, Army, Hog Creek

2014 SGT Ronny D. Sweger**, Army, Tulsa

2014 SGT William E. Wright, Army, Oklahoma City

2015 CSM Bennie G. Adkins *, Army, Waurika

2015 MG Leo J. Baxter **, Army, Lawton

2015 SGM Wayne Lee Bute, Army, Pawhuska

2015 LTC Gary Luvell Forbes, Sr., Army, Skiatook

2015 Capt James M. Horn, Marine Corps, Stillwater

2015 CWO Felix James McCool, Marine Corps, Pawhuska

2015 MG William E. McLeod, Army, Granite

2015 CAPT Wayne Arthur Parker, Navy, Oklahoma City

2015 SP4 Donald P. Sloat *, Army, Coweta

2015 COL Henry Offord Tuell, III, Army, Norman

2016 SGT Gary Wayne Banz **, Army, Lawton

2016 CPL Phillip W. Coon, Army, Okemah

2016 CSM Donald Joe Hall, Air Force, Stroud

2016 Cpl James Terry Johnson, Marine Corps, Wynnewood/Sulphur

2016 1LT Lowell E. Jones, Army, Ada

2016 SFC Melvin Morris *, Army, Okmulgee

2016 SP4 Willard F. Parish, Army, Bristow

2016 Capt Robert William Poolaw, Sr., Marine Corps, Lawton

2016 Col William H. Talley, Air Force, Sayre

2016 PFC Herman C. Wallace *, Army, Marlow

2017 SP5 Dwight Wayne Birdwell, Army, Oklahoma City

2017 SP4 Edward Allen DeVore, Jr. *, Army, Henryetta

2017 CW5 Terry Lee Frabott, Army, Edmond

2017 SSG George Dennis Keathley *, Army, Lawton

2017 LTC Walter E. Price, Army, Tulsa/Stillwater

2017 SGM Eugene Rockholt, Army, Moore

2017 Capt Peter C. Rollins, PhD **, Marine Corps, Stillwater

2017 COL Tom J. Rounsaville, Army, Durant

2017 Col Jerry Wayne Shipman, Air Force, Norman

2017 CSM Robert Arthur White, Army, Lawton

2018 CPT Philip Clark Boatner, Army, McAlester/Clayton

2018 GM3 Paul Henry Carr, Navy, Checotah

2018 CPT Arnold Joseph Cissna, Army, Pharoah/Weleetka

2018 Cpl William Kelly Downing, Marine Corps, Muskogee

2018 CPT Robert Lloyd Ford **, Army, Okeene/Shawnee

2018 1Lt William Michael Grammar, Marine Corps, Oklahoma City

2018 LTC William Alexander Hamilton, Army, Pauls Valley/Anadarko

2018 COL John Carl Johnson, Army, Edmond

2018 CPL George Thomas Walden, Army, Tulsa

2018 CPT Charles William Ward, Army, Tulsa

2019 CAPT Phillip Neal Butler, Navy, Tulsa

2019 MAJ Mathew Dale Dallas, Army, Geary/Oklahoma City

2019 CPT William Leslie Ford **, Army, Shawnee

2019 CDR Danny Elloy Glenn, Navy, Shawnee/Norman

2019 SGT Roy William Woodrow Harmon *, Army, Talala/Yale

2019 CSM George Wilson Hunt, Army, Shawnee/OKC/Tulsa

2019 Col Milton Wayne Johnson, Air Force, Roff

2019 Col Rosemary Hogan Luciano, Air Force/Army, Chattanooga

2019 LCpl Harvey Phillip Pratt **, Marine Corps, El Reno/Guthrie

2019 BrigGen Kenneth Marlar Taylor, AAC/Air Force, Enid/Hominy

2019 SGM Ira Edward Whitaker, Army, Fletcher/Elgin

2020 CPT Cloyce Vann Choney, Army, Shawnee

2020 COL Gregory Dmitri Gadson, Army, Oklahoma City

2020 1LT James Robert Kalsu, Army, Del City

2020 Ms. Mary Ann Ligon **, Tulsa

2020 CPT George Russell Miller, Army, Kenefic

2020 TSGT Verdun Covert Myers, Army, Tecumseh

2020 PFC Joseph Oklahombi, Army (Code Talker), Bokchita

2020 CPT David Arthur Peters, Army, Stillwater

2020 VADM Sean Averell Pybus, Navy, Stillwater

2020 SSG Douglas Jason Warden, Army, Shawnee

2020 Sgt Lyndol Raye Wilson, Marine Corps, Okemah

2021 BG Roscoe Conklin Cartwright, Army, Tulsa

2021 CPT Ellis Duncan Edwards **, Army, Oklahoma City

2021 CPT Otto Luther Hunter Hine, DDS, Army, Muskogee

2021 BG Chester Alvin Howard, Army, Dustin/Okemah

2021 MG William Schaffer Key, Army, Wewoka/Oklahoma City

2021 LTG Raymond Stallings McLain, Army, Oklahoma City

2021 CW5 Paul Edward Merchant, Army, Oklahoma City

2021 SP4 Joe Minor Thomas, Army, Tulsa

2022 COL Arthur Wilcox Buswell, MD, Army, Kingfisher

2022 CSM George Eugene Clark, Sr., Army, McAlester

2022 COL Stanley Levi Evans **, Army, Oklahoma City

2022 MAJ Virgil Cephus Fields, Army Air Forces, Jay

2022 CW3 Bobby Gene Frost, Army, Jones

2022 LtCol Galand Dwight Kramer, Air Force, Tulsa

2022 Cpl Thomas Dawayne Miller, Marine Corps, Perry

2022 MAJ John Floyd Mullins, Army, Mountain Park

2022 CPT Gary Michael Rose *, Army, Lawton

2022 COL Leonard Bittle Scott III, Army, Edmond

2022 MAJ Joe Lee Todd **, Army, Bartlesville

2022 2LT Frank Charles Vrana, Army, Arcadia

2023 ADM James Joseph Clark, Navy, Pryor, IT

2023 LTJG Douglas I. Baker, Navy, McClain County

2023 CAPT Edwin Chappabitty, Jr, Public Health Service, Lawton

2023 COL William J. Coultrup, Army, Edmond

2023 SP4 Terry Lee Courange, Army, Purcell

2023 Maj Thomas E. Maloney, Air Force, Cushing

2023 BG Thomas Peter Mancino**, Army, Broken Arrow

2023 LtCol Daniel J. Rooney**, Air Force, Owasso

2023 SMSgt William Piazza, Air Force, Del City

2023 SGT Larry Stanley Pierce, Army, Wewoka

2023 CAPT Howard E. Rutledge, Navy, Tulsa

2023 CDR Neil R. Sparks, Jr., Navy, Tulsa

2024 LT Joe Van Abernathy, Army, Elk City

2024 SGM Lanny Asepermy **, Army, Apache

2024 LtCol Kenneth A. Brower, Army Air Force, Greenfield

2024 SGT Patrick Keith Bryan, Army, Tulsa

2024 LTC Robert Frank Creson, Army, Norman

2024 LT Tom Emerson, Army, Oklahoma City

2024 MajGen William P.T. Hill, Marines, Vinita, Indian Terr.

2024 Ms. Elaine D. Johns**, Enid

2024 LT Dan Elkin Jones, Army, Oklahoma City

2024 ADM Marc Andrew Mitscher, Navy, Oklahoma City

2024 MSG Earl Plumlee*, Army, Clinton

2024 CPT Frederick P. Smith, Oklahoma City