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
The Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945 Artifacts & Photos
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,
