List of Medal of Honor recipients educated at the United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Academy is often referred to as Annapolis, while sports media refer to the Academy as "Navy" and the students as "Midshipmen"; this usage is officially endorsed. During the latter half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, the United States Naval Academy was the primary source of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps officers, with the Class of 1881 being the first to provide officers to the Marine Corps. Graduates of the Academy are also given the option of entering the United States Army or United States Air Force. Most Midshipmen are admitted through the congressional appointment system.[2] The curriculum emphasizes various fields of engineering.[3]
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This list is drawn from alumni of the Naval Academy who are recipients of the Medal of Honor (MOH), the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. The Academy was founded in 1845 and graduated its first class in 1846. The first alumnus to graduate and go on to receive the Medal of Honor was Harry L. Hawthorne (class of 1882). The most recent alumnus to receive the Medal of Honor was James Stockdale (class of 1947). Two alumni, Orion P. Howe (class of 1870) and Henry Lakin Simpson (class of 1882), received the Medal of Honor before being appointed to the Academy.
At the Naval Academy, in Bancroft Hall, twenty-one rooms are dedicated to each Academy graduate Medal of Honor recipient since the start of World War II.
In addition to the 73 Medal of Honor recipients who are alumni of the Academy, over 990 noted scholars from a variety of academic fields are Academy graduates, including 45 Rhodes Scholars and 16 Marshall Scholars. Additional notable graduates include 1 President of the United States and 2 Nobel Prize recipients.[b]
Medal of Honor recipients
- "Class year" refers to the alumni's class year, which usually is the same year they graduated. However, in times of war, classes often graduate early. For example, the Class of 1943 actually graduated in 1942.
Spanish–American War
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Veracruz
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![]() Frank Friday Fletcher ![]() Albertus Catlin ![]() William Moffett ![]() Wendell Neville ![]() Frank Jack Fletcher ![]() Jonas Ingram ![]() Oscar Badger |
World War I
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World War II
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![]() Isaac Kidd ![]() Norman Scott ![]() Harold Bauer ![]() Lawson Ramage ![]() John Bulkeley ![]() David McCampbell in his fighter plane ![]() Richard O'Kane ![]() Eugene Fluckey ![]() Butch O'Hare in his F4F Wildcat fighter plane ![]() Richard McCool (l) |
Korea
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![]() Baldomero Lopez scaling the seawall at Inchon |
Vietnam
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Other recipients
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![]() William Corry ![]() Richard Byrd |
See also
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army Center of Military History.
- General
^ a: "Medal of Honor recipients". United States Naval Academy. 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^ b: "Notable Graduates". United States Naval Academy. 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
^ c: "Congress Members". United States Naval Academy. 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- Inline citations
- "Apply For Nomination". United States Naval Academy. 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
- "Academic Education". United States Naval Academy. 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
- "Richmond P. Hobson". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Medal of Honor recipients War With Spain". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- "Richmond Pearson Hobson Class of 1898 (sic)". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- "Richmond Pearson Hobson". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- "Medal of Honor recipients Mexican Campaign (Vera Cruz)". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- "Frank Friday Fletcher". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "William Rees Rush". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Harry M. P. Huse". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Edwin A. Anderson, Jr". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Herman O. Stickney". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "William K. Harrison". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Albertus W. Catlin". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "William A. Moffett". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "William Adger Moffett Rear Admiral, United States Navy". Arlington National Cemetery. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Wendell Cushing Neville". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Rufus Z. Johnston". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Allen Buchanan". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Wilkinson Stuart Castle". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "James P. Lannon". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Adolphus Staton". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Julius Curtis Townsend". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Richard Wainwright, Jr". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Frederick V. McNair, Jr". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Frank Jack Fletcher". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Charles C. Hartigan". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "George McCall Courts". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Jonas Howard Ingram". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Theodore S. Wilkinson, Jr". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Oscar Charles Badger". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Paul F. Foster". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "George M. Lawry (sic)". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Hugh C. Frazer". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Edward O. McDonnell". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Willis Winter Bradley Class of 1907". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "Willis W. Bradley". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "Medal of Honor recipients World War I". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- "Edouard Victor Michel Izac Class of 1915". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- "Izac, Edouard Victor Michel". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
- "Isaac Campbell Kidd". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Medal of Honor recipients World War II (G–L)". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "Medal of Honor recipients World War II (T–Z)". United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "Franklin Van Valkenburgh". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Mervyn Sharp Bennion". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Medal of Honor recipients World War II (A–F)". United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on 2008-06-16. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "Daniel Judson Callaghan". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Medal of Honor recipients World War II (M-S)". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "Norman Scott". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Albert H. Rooks". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Cassin Young". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Samuel G. Fuqua". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "John P. Cromwell". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Herbert E. Schonland". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Howard W. Gilmore". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Bruce A. Van Voorhis". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "William Harold Bauer (sic)". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Samuel David Dealey". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Richard Nott Antrim". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Ernest Edwin Evans". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Lawson P. Ramage". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Bruce McCandless". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "John D. Bulkeley". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "David McCampbell". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "George F. Davis". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Richard H. O'Kane". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "Eugene B. Fluckey". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "John James Powers". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Milton E. Ricketts". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Edward H. O'Hare". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- "George L. Street, III". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on July 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Richard Miles McCool". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
- "Thomas J. Hudner, Jr". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Medal of Honor recipients Korean War". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- "Baldomero Lopez". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on July 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "Robert Dale Reem". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- "James B. Stockdale". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- "Medal of Honor recipients Vietnam (M-Z)". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- "Orion P. Howe". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Medal of Honor recipients Civil War (A-L)". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Harry L. Hawthorne". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Harry LeRoy Hawthorne". Arlington National Cemetery. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Medal of Honor recipients Indian Wars Period". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Henry Simpson". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Claud Ashton Jones Rear Admiral, United States Navy". Arlington National Cemetery. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- "Claud Ashton Jones". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- "Medal of Honor recipients Interim Awards, 1915–1916". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- "William M. Corry, Jr". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- "Lieutenant Commander William M. Corry, Jr., USN (1889–1920)". Naval Historical Center. Archived from the original on 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- "Medal of Honor recipients Interim Awards, 1920–1940". United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- "Walter Atlee Edwards". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 9, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
- "Robert W. Carey". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Thomas J. Ryan". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- "Henry Clay Drexler". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- "Carlton Barmore Hutchins". United States Naval Academy. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-14.