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Louis Joseph Sebille


Major, US Air Force


Born:   November 21, 1915 at Harbor Beach, MI
Entered Service:   Chicago, IL
Date/Place of Action:  August 05, 1950 - Hanchang, Korea
Unit:   67th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 18th Fighter-Bomber Group, 5th Air Force
Presentation:  To His Widow At March Air Force Base, Riverside, CA
     By General Hoyt Sanford Vendenberg on August 24, 1951
Date of Death:   August 05, 1950  (Killed In Action)
Buried at:  Forrest Home Cemetery - Chicago, IL


John Springer Walmsley, Jr.

Captain, US Air Force



Born:   January 07, 1920 at Baltimore, MD
Entered Service:   Baltimore, MD
Date/Place of Action:  September 14, 1951 - Yangdok, Korea
Unit:  8th Bombardment Squadron, 3d Bombardment Group
Presentation:  To His Widow At Bolling Air Force Base
     By Secretary of the Air Force Talbott on June 12, 1954
Date Of Death:  September 14, 1951  (Killed In Action)
Buried at:  National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Honolulu, HI


George Andrew Davis, Jr.

Major, US Air Force



Born:  December 01, 1920 at Dublin, TX
Entered Service:   Lubbock, TX
Date/Place of Action:   February 10, 1952 - Sinuiju-Yalu River, Korea
Unit:  4th Fighter Group, 334th Fighter Squadron, 5th Air Force
Presentation:  To His Widow At Reese Air Force Base, TX
     By General Nathan F. Twining - May 14, 1954
Date of Death:  February 10, 1952 (Killed In Action)
Buried at:  City of Lubbock Cemetery - Lubbock, TX


Charles Joseph Loring, Jr.

Major, US Air Force



Born:   October 02, 1918 at Portland, ME
Entered Service:   Portland, ME
Date/Place of Action:  November 22, 1952 - Sniper Ridge, North Korea
Unit:   80th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing
PresentationTo His Widow At the White House
     By President Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 05, 1954
Date of Death:      November 22, 1952   (Killed In Action)
Buried at:   National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Honolulu, HI

The Air Force
Medal of Honor





The Medal of Honor, often called The Congressional Medal of Honor, was established by the United States Congress during the Civil War.  The Navy's Medal was first, and was introduced in Congress in December, 1861 as a means to "promote the efficiency of the Navy".  The following February legislation was introduced authorizing a similar award for members of the US Army.  On July 12, 1861 President Lincoln signed the bill authorizing the Army's Medal of Honor.  (The Navy's had been authorized by the President seven months earlier.)

From the Civil War to the pre-World War I days, Medals of Honor were awarded to less than 2,500 American soldiers, sailors and Marines.  Of 119 Medals of Honor awarded for World War I service, four went to men of the US Army Air Service.  During World War II an additional 38 airmen of the Army Air Corps received Medals of Honor. 

The four brave Korean War heroes of the new United States Air Force each received the same award as their predecessors in the Air Service and Air Corps...the Army Medal of Honor.  In 1965 all that changed, and the Air Force introduced its own design for a Medal of Honor.  Almost twice the size of the Army and Navy designs, it most closely resembles the Army award, maintaining the down-pointing star inside the green enamel laurel wreath.  The Air Force made only two major changes (beyond the size) from the Army award.  The profile of Minerva in the center of the Medal is replaced with the head of the Statue of Liberty.  The eagle that perches atop the Army's Medal of Honor is replaced by the thunderbolt sprays of the US Air Force Coat of Arms.
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