Asa Betham
Asa Betham — Coxswain U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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Asa Betham — Coxswain U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Charles H. Baldwin — Coal Heaver U.S. Navy Civil War Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA
Charles H Smith — Coxswain U.S. Navy Civil War Off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA
Charles James Bibber — Gunner's Mate U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
David L. Bass — Seaman U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
Edward R. Bowman — Quartermaster U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
Gurdon H. Barter — Landsman U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
James Barnum — Boatswain's Mate U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
John Davis — Quarter Gunner U.S. Navy Civil War Off Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
Philip Bazaar — Ordinary Seaman U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
Robert M. Blair — Boatswain's Mate U.S. Navy Civil War Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
William Campbell — Boatswain’s Mate U.S. Navy U.S. Civil War Fort Fisher, North Carolina, USA
USS Monitor served for only ten months, but her rotating turret, battle with CSS Virginia, loss at sea, and continuing archaeological conservation made her one of the most consequential warships of the nineteenth century.
The air over Balete Pass crackled with small-arms fire and the flat explosions of grenades. On the steep slope of Hill B, a narrow finger of ground jutting out above the zigzag road that threaded the Caraballo Mountains, five exhausted American infantrymen hugged the earth around a captured Japanese trench. It was 8 May 1945, deep in the Battle of Luzon, and Private First Class Anton L.
A Medal of Honor story of selfless sacrifice under fire in the Battle of Luzon.