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Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura

Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for service during the Korean War (b.1925)

Staff Sgt. Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House, October 27, 1953.
Staff Sgt. Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura receives the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House, October 27, 1953.
Documentation and articles about Miyamura's distinguished military service during the Korean War, and the "secret citation" that awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor while he was still a prisoner of war.


"[Hiroshi 'Hershey'] Miyamura, 80, a member of one of Gallup's founding Japanese-American families, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1953 for his meritorious military service during the Korean War. Now, New Mexico is honoring Miyamura and 11 other New Mexican recipients of the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. military award to be bestowed on an individual."
"The City of Gallup, New Mexico has completed an elegant series of individual column type monuments dedicated to the veterans of all wars. The various pillars honor veterans of WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf Wars and the WWII 'Indian Code Talkers.' Included is a separate individual column solely dedicated to honor Gallup-resident Hiroshi 'Hershey' Miyamura, the only Japanese American in the Korean War to receive the nation’s highest combat award, the Medal of Honor."
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