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Medal of Honor Recipient

Michael J. Perkins

U.S. Army · World War I

MOH-RC-001947Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: 1904 Army design, early suspension ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Army Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1919

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Medal of Honor

October 27, 1918

Belieu Bois, France

Rank at action
Private First Class
Service
U.S. Army
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
Company D, 101st Infantry, 26th Division
Presentation date
December 31, 1919

The Citation

Sources ↓
He, voluntarily and alone, crawled to a German "pill box" machinegun emplacement, from which grenades were being thrown at his platoon. Awaiting his opportunity, when the door was again opened and another grenade thrown, he threw a bomb inside, bursting the door open, and then, drawing his trench knife, rushed into the emplacement. In a hand-to-hand struggle he killed or wounded several of the occupants and captured about 25 prisoners, at the same time silencing 7 machineguns.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Michael J. Perkins — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

  2. Michael J. Perkins — U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index ↗U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index · Checked 2026-08-30

    identity, unit, action date, place, citation text, and published General Order reference

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-001957
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
34
Entered service at
Boston, Mass.
Archive transcription SHA-256
875278d8d65269b637f20e360a12b6fb9c383998e2ef4dc56600418525e135b2

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The current Society recipient result supplied the profile fields; a direct expanded-page fetch timed out during this pass. The official U.S. Army citation index independently corroborates the identity, unit, action date, place, and citation. The underlying General Order was not examined. The current profile supplies rank at time of action as Private First Class; the inherited rank field remains preserved as None. The current historical action-place wording replaces only the controlled canonical geocoder field; the complete inherited place remains preserved. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under World War I; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. Supplemental authoritative federal evidence is retained as a separately attributed source. The underlying General Order was not examined and the exact-order gate remains pending.

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