Pacific Valor and Medal of Honor Resource Page

Pacific Valor is more than a demonstration of the equipment and tactics utilized in the Pacific War. During each battle-reenactment program, one Medal of Honor recipient will be honored with a reading of their citation and reenactment of their heroic actions.

The Medal of Honor

Signed into being by President Lincoln during the U.S. Civil War, this medal was initially awarded for a variety of military actions, including mass awards to entire units for re-enlistments and even to the pallbearers of Lincoln’s casket.

Later, the Medal of Honor came to be awarded only to someone who “distinguishes himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.” During the Second World War, 472 Americans received the Medal of Honor, many of them posthumously.

Jacklyn Harold “Jack” Lucas

MEDAL OF HONOR AWARDED: 5 OCTOBER 1945

RANK: Private First Class

SERVICE: United States Marine Corps

HONORED AT PACIFIC VALOR ON: March 11, 2023, and September 2, 2023

Robert Eugene Bush

MEDAL OF HONOR AWARDED: 5 OCTOBER 1945

RANK: Hospital Apprentice First Class

SERVICE: United States Navy

HONORED AT PACIFIC VALOR ON: May 27, 2023, and November 4,