Medal of Honor Receipients

In the Honiara Airport, on Guadalcanal, Henderson field still exists. And there are a few monuments, plaques and pictures honoring those that fought and for some died in this forgotten part of the world. I snapped every one I could and it would take pages to show them all, which some day I will actually attempt to publish, along with the aid of Todd and Dru. But this one really got me. The list shows the names of those awarded the US Medal of Honor. There was another showing the awards presented the Victoria Cross. I selected this one shot because of the extensive number of men presented the award just at this one campaign. Significant to me was Harold Bauer, who lost his life, but has an airfield two hours away in Vanuatu named after him, and for you Ed & Debi Huntsman, you will note, Douglas Albert MUNRO, SM 1/c of the US Coast Guard who, if I remember correctly, during a hostile evacuation of Marines he took his Naval Landing Craft and used it as a shield to draw fire and engage the enemy to protect the helpless Marines as they struggled in their evacuation. Tara is not allowed to use Wikipedia, but I trust this link is accurate - Munro Semper fi!