From the THG Vaults: Four classic episodes of The History Guy:
0:00 – History of the First Medal of Honor
10:10 – Thomas Ward Custer and the Medal of Honor
19:19 – Mary Edwards Walker
25:50 – Douglas Munro and the Battle of Matanikau
35:32 – Jack Lucas and the Battle of Iwo Jima
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The President determines the recipient of the medal in addition to presenting it in the name of Congress "to a person while a member of the Army, distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty". Someone, or group, makes a recommendation based upon their belief that the individual as earned or won consideration by their action. That is, an individual is not awarded the Medal of Honor on the battlefield but by earning it by their action.
THG, in the battle for Iwo Jima you stated that the marines were centered around the B.A.R. and the others carried the M1 Garand, a carbine. Please note that the M1 Garand was not a carbine but a full length battle rifle. Thanks for an excellent episode.
My Great great uncle James Marvin Young received the MoH for actions during the Civil War.
As a Marine, I have long been aware of Douglas Munroe and his actions off Guadalcanal. Learning of his work there cemented the deep respect I already had for the US Coast Guard.
In the early 1980’s, I worked with MSG James Bondsteel. Vietnam MOH awardee and all around great guy. Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo was named for him. He tragically died when his vehicle was hit by a logging truck in Alaska after he had retired. RIP.
Always good show..Hey , what's up with the upside down pentagram on all these medals ?
Jack Lucas was the youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor of the 20th century. Interestingly enough, the youngest recipient, ( so far,) of the 21st century is Kyle Carpenter, also a Marine, who also threw himself over a grenade to protect a fellow Marine. Carpenter also survived his wounds.
The youngest recipient of the 19th century was Willie Johnston. (I hope I spelled that correctly,) He was a drummer boy, and only 13 years old at the time. During a route of his unit, when many a Union man threw away his weapon and fled the field in panic, Johnston conducted an orderly retreat and brought his drum back with him.
I still think Jack's is the most amazing story I've ever heard.
Lucas was a Marine and would have been awarded the Navy MOH, not the Army version shown in the video. Good video otherwise.
Here is chapman's dual medal of honor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKMjTqdTYo
He is history that deserves to be remembered.
Correct me if I'm wrong here and I might be so, grains of salt all around. But from what I here, Comanche isn't what they call themselves but rather it's a neighboring tribes word for them and it means basically "The guys who always want to fight.". Or something to that effect.
Thank you for the lesson.
The old panzer opening. A very good start to the New Year.
I visited his grave at Cle Elum, and someone had left a challenge coin from the cutter Munro on his headstone.
The M-1Garand is a full length battle rifle not a carbine .
How about Pueblo CO? "Home Of Heroes" four MOH !
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We should have learned about Thomas Custer in school. Thank you for telling us this story.
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and at Wounded Knee. soldiers shot killed women and children running. so -= to all other USA Hero's as butchers? Not all are bad though. SUm say hitler and stalin were good people.
mom was vice priciple of cebeque school home of geronimo. had to dicaplin the trouble youth.
I was privileged and honored to meet Jack Lucas a few years before his passing. He was a nice guy and I got to see him wearing his MoH!
I am a glade vet who didn't have an opportunity to get the MoH
funny first one sounds like some of the stories from when family was at Stage stations in Apache Pass
Great stories, yes, they do deserve to be remembered. At Iwo Jima my uncle Archie was fighting ashore, and my dad was offshore in a troop transport in reserve, soon to be ashore on Okinawa.
Thank you so much. I am from San Antonio and I have been searching for my family's history. It's been quite interesting to say the least. On a side note. History was my favorite subject in school. I used to get stuck watching the history Channel for hours. You sound like you might have some knowledge I'm looking for. It's only been a few years since finding out with DNA that we are native. And I'm not talking about 20 or 40% .I'm talking about the majority having over 90%and like 5 of us have 99% possibly more than 5 because not everyone has done DNA yet.. I'm just wondering if that's common to have that much and not have any history of being from a tribe? Because I met my great grandparents which were born in the late 1800s and they never said anything about any tribes. And now that I think about what they looked like. There's no mistake in identifying what they looked like. But I just don't understand how this happened. How can we have so much and yet we didn't even know. All my aunts and uncle are puzzled. This whole time we just thought somewhere down the line we could be from Mexico or Spain. So I'm in a search to find out what tribe and how did we get disconnected from it. . Just wondering if you could point me in the right direction.
I'm going to have to watch this video a couple times too let sink in . This is a lot to comprehend. My family might be apart of this story. So weird
Good episode . Quite a few Canadians have been awarded the Medal Of Honour .
Notice how the name of trump is absent in this video?