Talk:List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II

Tables
It seems to me that the sort function on the tables does not work with the colspan/rowspan function. Since each entry would have to be changed to get them workingm it would be a quite a bit of editing to fix all of them. I will get around to it eventually if nobody does, but I'm posting this in case somebody chooses to beat me to it. ''' bahamut0013 ♠  ♣  20:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

The right bar
There should be a separate ethnic group dedicated to the 21 Medal of Honor Japanese recipients in the 442 Infantry Regiment —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.1.96 (talk) 04:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I ask to have my uncle Joe R. Miller who passed May of 2011 from Mentor Ohio name added to the POW Medal. I am not sure if he has the Medal Of Honor and I am trying to seek what medals he may have had. During his funeral I neglected to write down which type of medals he had and he had about 5 of them. He enlisted from Cleveland Ohio and lived in Geneva Ohio but was born in Indiana. He became missing for 3 1/2 months on December 17, 1944. His Serial Number: 35064920, Date of Enlistment 06/03/1943, Box Number was 0889, File/Reel number is 3,311, Arm or Service was Army Corps of Engineers, Type was Engineer Combat Battalion, Area Sent was European Theatre/Germany Luxembourg Belgium, and Detaining Power was Germany. In Geneva Ohio they had a local paper called "Geneva Free Press" which posted his story of him missing and his escape with others and was flown to France and it was there where he finally contacted his parents/my grandparents to inform him he was saved and will be home as soon as he could. Proudly and with honor his is buried along with his wife (my aunt) in Arlington National Cemetery. We are blessed to of had many years with him and saddened he is gone along with my aunt. Please add his name to you POW Medal page. Thank you.

Lisa Lopez (Niece) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.189.164.52 (talk) 05:48, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Asian American and African American recipients
There should be some mention here of the 22 Asian Americans and 7 African Americans who didn't receive their medals until the 1990s because of discrimination at the time they served. I plan to add a note for each man, and a brief mention in the lede. MartinaDee (talk) 23:45, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

KIA versus delayed bestowal of Medal
The purple/lavender shading and "KIA" dagger symbol are said to indicate posthumous bestowal of the MoH. This convention is also followed in Lists for Korea, Vietnam, and post-Vietnam though not in the "parent" article List of Medal of Honor recipients. Especially with the Medal of Honor of many MoH recipients due to past discrimination, should we be distinguishing:


 * (A) those who were killed during the MoH action itself (as the KIA template suggests) from


 * (B) those who survived the action but whose recognition was delayed past the person's non-combat-related death?

Has this issue been discussed and resolved elsewhere? Should we discuss elsewhere? — RCraig09 (talk) 22:13, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

non listing for medal of honor recipients
The complete list of Medal of Honor recipients does not include the four men, James McDonald, William Badders. John Mihalowski and Orson Crandall, who received their medals of their heroic deep dives to the trapped crew of the USS Sailfish which sank on its trial voyage with all hands. The action was from May through September 1939. Shouldn't this be corrected? And are there any other "between war" recipients not listed?Donbeld (talk) 18:31, 1 March 2015 (UTC)Don Beld


 * They're here
 * 67.231.67.253 (talk) 19:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Moe Berg
Why isn't Moe_Berg on this list. (Question posed by reader ticket:2016060810020039) -- S Philbrick (Talk)  12:45, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Never mind, misread it.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  16:14, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Ernest E. Evans photograph
There is currently no photo for Ernest E. Evans, but this could be fixed easily since there is a photo of him in on his personal Wikipedia page that is public domain. I couldn't upload the photo without registering for an account, but it could be fixed easily in a matter of minutes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:315D:C270:F13F:9462:AD93:27F4 (talk) 21:42, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

List formatting and blank sections
The majority of Medal of Honor Recipient lists, both for this section and for the primary, use the note section to explicitly list the citation reason for receiving the Medal. I would like to propose reformatting this page to do this with all recipients listed. This would both fill out some of the currently incomplete notations, and also keep the information relevant and informative.

Jyggalypuff (talk) 19:24, 14 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Good Idea - but just a sentence or two, not the entire citation! That can be read at the individual's article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.231.67.253 (talk) 17:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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Use of the word "Japs"
Within the comment on the actions of Desmond Doss, there is a sentence "He also saved injured Japs"... I always thought that a "Jap" is a racist term and was used as such even in the 40s... Probably would be a good idea to change that to "japanese soldiers" or something. Never did any editing on wikipedia, so I am gonna leave that to you guys. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:1028:8B41:DF1E:71B2:2B9A:98C:6BF7 (talk) 21:36, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

George M. Cohan
Did he not get a non-combat version? They still did that a little in WWII. Should be noted somewhere. 2A00:23C7:E284:CF00:58DD:DC5F:92BB:1B37 (talk) 00:26, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * If I´m not mistaken he didn´t receive the Medal of Honor but the Congressional Gold Medal. ...GELongstreet (talk) 00:50, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Correct-- presented by FDR on 1 May 1940, according to the article on Cohan. 67.231.67.253 (talk) 17:43, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Column "Notes" should be removed from this summary article
In many cases, the Notes text is far too long and creates overwhelming vertical distortion of the tables. Anyone who wants to see those details can easily click on the biography link to the main article.

By removing the Notes column, the tables will be much more legible and more equal visual weighting will be given to each individual entry. 2600:1700:17F4:8840:BE:4EE1:CEF1:ED6A (talk) 04:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)