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Ok, I found a lot of good information on this MOH Recipient.  The author did an outstanding job of summarizing the mission on which the Medal of Honor was earned by Lt Edward S Michael.  I'm not going to summarize it,  too much detail would be lost, so

This is a somewhat updated repost.  I wrote this post in 2015. Since I'm doing daily Medal of Honor postings it seems to be okay for me to repeat.  Made a few corrections or found additional data which I included.

As I've mentio...

 Well, brace yourselves campers, this may be the most challenging Medal of Honor mission, I've read so far and I've read several. Talk about "Never give up, Never surrender"! 

The subject today is  2nd Lt. John C. Morgan, a co-pilot in B-17s in Europe. He went to several colleges but never graduated from one.  As such when he wen...

OK Campers, this one is a little rough for me.  Prior to Pearl Harbor he served a staff officer tour.  Unfortunately, for a lot of aircrew in WWII, he was a member of the "Bomber Mafia"

Wikipedia has a good passage on what I'm talki...

 OK, Campers, another Medal of Honor Recipient from WWII.  This one is somewhat unique.  As I've written before, virtually all Medal of Honor awards were awarded to a single recipient.  There two cases were there were two Medal of Honor Recipients on the Mission.  We will be discussing one of those missions (do...