39 STATE GOVERNORS

Dewey Follett Bartlett                   Marietta Ohio

Mordecai Bartley                          Fayette Cty PA  

Thomas W Bartley                       Jefferson County Ohio

Arthur Ingram Boreman                Waynesburg PA

John Brough                                 Marietta Ohio 

Alfred Eastlake Driscoll                 Pittsburgh PA

James H Duff PA                          Carnegie PA

John S Fisher                               Indiana PA

Thomas Ford                               Uniontown PA

John White Geary                        Mt Pleasant PA

William Ellsworth Glasscock        Monongalia WVa

Nancy Putnam Hollister               Marietta Ohio

William Miller Jenkins                  Ohio

William Freame Johnson             Greensburg PA

John Henry Kinkead                    Smithfield PA

Alfred Alf Mossman Landon         Marietta Ohio

Dr. William Carr Lane                  Fayette County PA 

David Leo Lawrence                   Pittsburgh PA

Joe Manchin III                            Farmington WVa

Ernest Whitworth Marland          Pittsburgh PA

Edward Martin                            10 Miile Run PA

Robert Martin                              Frankfort Springs PA

Edward Moody McCook              Steubenville Ohio

Arch Alfred Moore Jr,                   Glendale WVa 

C. William O'Neill                         Marietta Ohio

Francis Pierpont                          Monongalia WVa

Thomas Joseph Ridge                Munhall PA

Raymond P Shafer                      New Castle PA

Wilson Shannon                          St Clairsville Ohio

George Laird Shoup                    Kittanning PA

John K Tener                              Charleroi PA

Meldrim Thomson                       Pittsburgh PA

Richard Lewis Thornburg           Pittsburgh PA

David Tod                                   Youngstown Ohio

Cecil Underwood                        Josephs Mills WVa.

Joseph Vance                             Catfish / Washington Pa

Tom Vilsack                                Pittsburgh PA

George White                             Titusville PA

John Jacob Cornwell                  Pennsboro WVa

GOVERNMENT LEADERS

Jay H Feldstein  Chairman of PA Lottery Commission Butler PA

Leonard A Green  Commissioner PA FIsh and Boat


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ADMIRALS

John Carson Febiger 

Jonathan W Greenert                            Butler PA 

Chuck Kubic                                          Greensburg PA 

Michael Angelo Musmanno                   Stowe Township PA

Robert Edwin Peary                              Cresson PA 

Felix Budwell Stump                              Parkersburg WVa

ASTRONAUTS

Jerome III Jay Apt                                  East End PA

Edward Michael Fincke                         Emsworth PA

Stephen N Frick                                    Gibsonia PA

Terry Jonathan Hart                              Mt Lebanon PA

James Benson Irwin                              Beechview PA

ATOMIC BOMBING

Edward K Buckley            Nagsaki        Lisbon Ohio

 

BRONZE STAR      #

Abie Abraham                                        Lyndora PA

George M Aiken     7                             Greentree PA

Donald Eugene Crooks                         Clarion PA

Albert "Al" Eger       6

Anthony J Forte                                     Verona PA

Richard E Givens                                   Pittsburgh PA

Leo Mosi                 4 

Robert M O'Hara

Will Rahizer Jr.       5                              Evans City PA

Jason A Shaffer                                     Derry PA

Eugene "Gene" Smith                            Bellevue PA

Michael Strank                                       Franklin PA

Michael J. Zdrojewski                            Brentwood PA

CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL

John Maceo Watson Jr.                        Keystone WVa

154 CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR AWARDEES 

Elliott Alexander                                    Wheeling WVa

Thomas R Anderson                             Scenery Hill PA

George C. Axtell

Jesse T Barrick                                    Columbiana Ohio

Bernard P Bell                                      Point Pleasant WVa

Thomas W Bennett                              Morgantown WVa

Daniel Bishop                                       Wheeling  WVa

Robert Blume                                        Pittsburgh  PA

Hugh P Boone

Richard Boury                                       Monroe Ohio

Felix Brannigan

Lewis Brest

James H. Bronson                                IndianaCounty  PA

Jeremiah Z Brown                                New Bethlehem PA

Uriah H Brown                                      Washington Cty PA

William Campbell                                  New Philadelphia Ohio

Henry Capehart                                   Johnstown PA

Charles E.Capehart                             Conemaugh Twp PA

Casper Carlislie                                    Mt Lebanon PA

William J. Carson                                  Washington Cty PA

Joseph B Chambers

William A Clark PA

Michael Corcoran                                 Wheeling WVa

Robert Mitchell Cox                              Guernsey Cty Ohio

Benjamin C Criswell                             Moundsville WVa

Francis M Cunningham                        Ohiopyle PA

James Smith Cunningham                   Washington Cty PA

Josiah M Curtis                                    West Liberty WVa

Lt Thomas Ward Custer 2 Medals       New Rumley Ohio

Joseph Davis                                       East Palestine Ohio

Hiram A DeLavie                                  Stark Cty Ohio

Reginald Benjamin Desiderio               Clairton PA

Ralph Ellis Dias

Billy Dixon                                            Ohio County WVa

John Donaldson

Henry C Drexler

James R Durham                                Clarksburg WVa

John W Dutko

John N Eckes                                     Weston WVa

Nathan Huntley Edgerton                   Barnesville Ohio

Horace Ellis                                        Mercer Cty PA

Michael J Estocin                               Turtle Creek PA

John C Ewing

Mosheim Feaster                                Shellsburg PA

John H Fisher                                     Monmouth Cty

 Henry Fox                                          Trumbull Cty Ohio

Leonard A Funk Jr.

Louis Gedeon

John Gertsch

Joseph Gion

Albert Glavinski

James A. Graham                              Wilkinsburg PA 

Abraham Greenawalt                         Salem Ohio

Newton H Hall                                    Brimfield Ohio

Robert Willard Hartsock                     Fairmont WVa

Raymond Harvey                               Ford City PA

Martin Jones Hawkins                       Mercer Cty PA

John H Hays                                     Jefferson Ohio 

Henry Casey                                     New Geneva

Francis J Herron

Charles Higby

James Madison Hill                           Washington Cty PA 

Michael Himmelsback

Theodore Hyatt PA

Ruel M Johnson                                Harbor Creek PA

Sam Johnson

David H Johnston                             Indiana Cty PA

Thomas Herbert                               Joseph WVa

Gus Kefurt                                        Greenville PA

John Doran Kelly                              Youngstown Ohio 

Alexander Kelly

Charles E. "Commando" Kelly          PittsburghPA 

John D Kelly

James Kephart                                 Venango Cty PA

Thomas R. Kerr

John M Kindig

John A Kirkwood                             Pittsburgh PA

Donald R Lobaugh

John Alexander Logan Jr.              Youngstown Ohio

Cyprus Benson Lower

Gottlieb Luty Walter

Joseph Marm, Jr.

Milton Mathews

Archibald Mathies

William C May

Joseph McCauslin

Samuel McConnell                          Belmont Ohio

Ross McGinnnis 2008                     Shippenville PA

Wilson McGonagle                          Cadiz Ohio

George G McMurtry                         Pittsburgh PA

Walter McWhorter                           Clarksburg WVa

Henry W.B. Mechling

James K. Merrifield                         Hyde Park Pa

James I Mestrovitch

John W Minick

Theodore Mitchell

George G Moore                            Tyler Cty WVa

Sterling Morelock

Jerome Morford                              Mercer Cty PA

William D. Morgan

Francis Morrison

Melvin Earl Newlin                         Wellsville Ohio

Michael J Novosel                         Etna PA

Charles Oliver

Robert L Orr

Mitchell Paige                                Charleroi PA

Alfred F Pearson

James Kastor Peirsol                     Beaver County PA

Orlando Henderson Petty              Harrison Ohio

Franklin J Phillips

John S Pinder

James Pipes

A William Pittinger                         Steubenville Ohio

William Port

Donn F Porter                               Sewickley PA

William Prom

George Ramer

William Reed                                 Union County PA

Charles A Reeder                          Shinnston WVa

Louis Renninger                            East Liverpool Ohio

Archibald Rowland Jr

James A Schoonmaker

Robert Semple

Emisire Shahan                             Clarksburg WVa

Charles Shambaugh

John Shanes                                 Monongalia Cty WVa

Levi Shoemaker                            Clarksburg WVa

William Shomo                               Jeannette PA

Randall Shughart

Edward Silk

Henry C. Slusher

Reuben S. Smalley                       Washington Cty PA

Michael Sowers

William H Surles                           Steubenville Ohio

Charles Alexander Swan              Green Cty PA

Joseph H Thompson 

Peter Thompson

Jacob Trautman

Thomas J Ward                           Romney WVa

Henry Clay Warfel                       Mill Creek PA

Henry Wilkens

Walter J Will                                Pittsburgh, PA

Walter S Will

Herschel Woodrow Williams       Fairmont WVa

Benjamin Wilson                         Pittsburgh PA

Alfred Wilson

David Francis Winder                 Edinboro PA

Daniel A Woods                          Wheeling WVa

Joseph Wortick (Wertick)            Fayette Cty PA

Michael J Wovosel

Jacob F. Yeager                         New Texas PA

Andrew J Young                         Greene County PA

AIR MEDALS

Wallace B McGaughey

128 DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS

James H. Amick

Raphael Anthony

Richard Ascenzi

Norman Baker

William Bickel

Thomas Bird

Leroy H Bloom 

William H Bortz Jr.

Joseph Breslove

Edward G Brophy

Phillip Burda

Joseph Burdis Jr.

Robert Burns

William Carter

David W Cole J

acob Coleman

Samuel Collier

Glenn T Conner

John Cook

Harry Crabbe

Ralph T Danielson

W.M. Dempsey

Elmer A Diethorn

Joseph James Dimel 2 X DFC

James E Doerr

Raymond Edinger

George S Faith

Clifford G Fisher 2 X DFC

George P Fisher

James Fisher

Kenneth Forsyth

William Frankovich

George E. Fraudin

Charles Garnham

Lynn R Gerberding

John Giarusso

Richard E Givens

DeSales John Guido

George Halliwell

Charles Hayes

Christian Herron

Robert W. Hockelberg

John E Hockenberger

Gerald R Johnson

Livingstone Johnson

Robert C. Johnson

John J. Kavanaugh

Kenneth G. Keisel

Robert Kessler

Arthur Kiefer

Leo R Kimball

Edward H Kirsch

James N Kokales

Marvin Morris

Kramer Douglas Krezan

Joseph Kristufek

John Labuskes

William Lancaster

Alexander G Lee

John Lipovsik

Joseph Lubas

Charles Henry MacDonald

John Madrishin

Joseph H. Malek III

Donald Marshall

Harold F Mason

George Maund Jr.

Gen Keith Barr McCutcheon

Wallace B McGaughey DFC & 5 Air Medals

George McGregor

David R McNeilly

Frank H McQuaid

Raymond Milakovic

Oscar Miller

William W Moreland

John Morgan

Franklin M Moses

James Murray Magee

Naffah Richard Nicholls

William Noel

Eugene Novak

Robert M O'Hara 

John P O'Hara

Gene O'Malley

John Opeka Jr.

Andrew T Panchura

Joseph Papst

Edmund K Parenti

William Price

Melvin Rapport

James Regan

Bruno Riccardi

Glen H Rojohn

Louis Rusiski

Clifford J Ryland Jr.

Edwin A Scheiderlein

Robert Schmidt

Jerome G. Schweickert

George Seftick

William Shomo

Murray J Shubin

Albert Simkunas

Henry G Simon

Walter Sobczak

John Somma

William C. Sommer Jr.

Frank E Spreha

Nicholas Stabile

Norman J Stein

Michael E. Stephan

Robert W Strang

Harry J Sullivan

James John Sullivan, Jr.

Phillip J Sweeney

Leonard Tabish

Charles W Tate

Boyd D. "Buzz" Wagner

Frederick Watson

Nestor Werkstein

Norman J. Wernert

Donald E. West

Donald Williams

Theodore Winowitch

Quentin J Yeckley

Ralph Yothers

Ronald B. Yuss

Carl J Zajicek

64   DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS

Hugh Abercrombie
Frank E Andrea
Clyde J Beers
Joseph Bennett
Cedric Benz
Stanley Bevan
Carmine Botti
Hugh F Brennen
Robert Brown
Robert S Cain
Thomas J Cavanaugh
Angelo Cestoni
Charles C Conaty
Allan S Dayton
Walter R Flannery
Thomas Gavin
Fred Grossi
Sidney Hantman
John Hassan
Christian Herron
Allen W Hervey
Michael Hritsik
Harry R Imhof
Charles Links
Joseph Kaper
Robert P.Kaufman
John J Kennedy
George D Klier
Nicholas Krayer
Abe Levinson
Morrison F Lewis
Edmund W Lynch
Edwin MacBeth
George Mamula
Harry Mates
Phillip Maurer
Frederick W McClemens
James L McInerney
Dan McSweeney
Joseph Merisko
James D Moore
John P Morris
Daniel L. O'Neill
Ralph E Ord
Donald Orsini
Raymond F Peacock
Edward Puchejda
Raymond C. Rowbotten
Sam Saplio
Albert Schad
John H Schenkel
Ignazio Scialabba
Andrew Sosnak
Jack Starkey
Lawrence Sweeney
Joseph Terry
George M Thompson
John W Thomson
Robert Tonsetic
Jack Underwood
Logan Weston
Elmer Winters
Robert G Woodside
Elmer Zeiler

LEWIS & CLARK EXPLORERS

John Booley Pgh
John Colter                                                                            
Patrick Gass
George Gibson            Mercer County
George Shannon

8 FLYING ACES

Louis Bennett                                           Weston WVa.

William R Guyton                                     Bellevue PA

Gerald R Johnson                                    Kenmore Ohio

Charles Henry MacDonald                       DuBois PA

William Shomo                                          Jeannette PA

Murray J Shubin                                        Dormont PA

Boyd D "Buzz" Wagner                              Emeigh PA

Calvin Charles Wire                                   Pittsburgh PA

33 GENERALS

Earl E Anderson                                        Morgantown WVa
George C. Axtell 
Absolom Baird  
Robert W Bazley                                            Brentwood PA 
Charles Francis Bishop                                 Wheeling WVa
Gen Henry L Burnett                                     Youngstown Ohio
John K Cullen 
George Armstrong Custer                             New Rumley Ohio 
Isaac H Duval                                                Brooke County WVa
Ephraim Ralph Eckley                                   Mt Pleasant Ohio 
Pete Frank Kendall Everest Jr.                      Fairmont WVa 
Claire Garrecht                                               Pittsburgh PA
John White Geary                                          Mt Pleasant PA 
Benjamin Henry Grierson                               Pittsburgh PA 
Michael Vincent Hayden                                 Northside PA
Alexander Hays

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson          Clarksburg WVa
William Lowther Jackson                                Clarksburg WVa 
William Larimer Jr                                           Pittsburgh PA 
Robert M Marquette Jr.                                  East Liverpool Ohio 
George Catlett Marshall                                 Uniontown PA 
John McCausland
Anson George McCook                                  Steubenville Ohio
Edward Moody McCook                                 Steubenville Ohio
Edwin Stanton McCook                                  Steubenville Ohio 
Keith Barr McCutcheon                                  East Liverpool Ohio
James Scott Negley

John Neville
Benjamin Franklin Potts                                  Carrollton Ohio
Jesse Lee Reno                                              Wheeling WVa
Thomas A. Rowley

John F Sievertson                                           Glendale WVa
Mele "Mel" Vojvodich                                       Steubenville Ohio

MAJORS

William Joshia Crow                                        Uniontown PA
Teresa James

11 NAVY CROSS

Robert Beatty
Joseph Breslove
Walter E Burak
John Dawson
Alan Hirshberg
Clement Johnston
William Keys
Anthony Morrison
Daniel Murphy
Thomas Parian
Frank Wright


253 SILVER STAR


Abie Abraham                                             Lyndora PA

John B. Adamczyk
Edward Adlesic
George Allison Jr.
Robert W Armbrust                                     Pittsburgh PA
Charles E Ashton
Robert Bahl
Donald Bailey
John Balkovitz
James Banner
James Banze
Albert J Baraniak
Jack E Barr
James A Barrett
Russell J. Bateman Jr.
Franklin O Berkhouse
Andrew Beveridge
William John Beynon
John F Blaskovich
Robert Allen Bock
Stevon a Booker
Anthony N Borelli
Charles Boros
Herbert Bothwell
James A Boumbouras
John Brick
Byron K Brooks
Wiliam G Brown Jr.
Emil Brunk
Elmer E Buban
Benjamin Carb
Jack Carletto
Dennis Carr
John R Carroll
Edgar Castle
Mauro Cautela
Ernest T Ceraso
Raymond F Clougherty
Frank Colarusso
Albert Colletto
John Collins
Joseph Columbus
William Congalton
James P Connors
Michael R Conroy
Edward A Conway
Joseph Cortese
Martin F Costa
Earl S Crawford
Phillip Cristina
James Cryster
Edward M. Culligan
Lawrence D David
Kenneth H Davidson
Michael Dawinda
Charles Allen Dear
Joseph DeMarco
Cecil A Demutis
Earl Diehl
Anthony V Digiorgi
Theodore Ditchko
Raymond Dittler
Daniel C Diven
Edward E Dobrowolski
James C Doloughty
Robert Doering
Andrew S Dudik
Michael Eannarino
James E Elias
Michael Elias
Gustav F Erickson
William Evans                                             Beaver Falls PA
Jason Fetty Silver Star                               Parkersburg WVa
David Finnegan
William Fishinger
Thomas Fitzgerald
Sidney Flam
James Flannery
John M Fowler
William Francis
Leon Frank
William Frey
Charles Garnham
Vincent a Geiger
Joseph T George
John Gilboux
George H Gleeson
Charles J Gloeckl
Harry Goldberg
George A Gregoric
Anthony a Grodeck
William L Gubanic
David Guerrieri
Robert Hamorsky
Paul Hanas
James D Hart
Howard E Hartranft, Jr.
John Heath
David Hensel
Frank Hepler
John S Hildebrand
Edward W Hoffman
John E. Housley
William Robert Hutchinson
Joseph R Ieraci
Howard S Jacob
Edward J Jadlowiec
Donald Jakovac
John R Jasak
Charles Jenkins
Robert R Johnson
James jordan
Edward C Josefczyk
Michael Joyce
George J Kaminski
Charles Karnack
Frank J Karpinski
David R Kasun
Robert Kessler
William Keys
Richard P Killmeyer
William D Kinter
Raymond J Kleppick
Michael Konyk
Thomas J Korenich
Jacob A Korn, Jr.
Vincent A Krepps
Charles Krul                                                  Swissvale PA
Joseph Kubba
Jean E LaPlace X 2 Silver Stars
Frank Laten
Anthony Lederer
Mark A Leive
Wiliam Lober
J.E. Logan
Robert Dithridge Ludwig
Joseph Lukasiewicz
Santo LuQuatra
Albert Machajewski
Paul L Mang
John Marek
Edward Massung
William Matthews
Robert Matthews
Robert J. Matthews
Stanley Mayhall
Augustus J McDonough
James S. McDowell
Jack McGavern
Raymond McGill
Ross McGinnis                                                  Knox PA
John McGough
Robert McGregor
James J Mcharg
James T McKeever
James McPoland
Richard W McVay
Michael Mesiarik
James Metzler
John Meyers
Norman Miller
Thomas Miller
Walter Lawrence Miller X 2 Silver stars
Joseph Milligan
Harry B Milne
Charles J Minnicks
Frank Mino
John Molenick
Paul S Mooney
Frank J Moran
Michael Morch
Frank P Morelli
Wilbert Moretsky
Allen I Moses
Robert Moses
Wesley Moyle
Robert J Murtha
George H Muse
Donald F. Neff
Richard Nicholls
Joseph Nichols
Stanislaw Norkevicus
Robert O'Conner
Anthony Onorato
John D Osterholt, Jr.
Stanley Ostrow
Thomas O'Toole
Frank A Palaysa
Louis Perry
James Petergal
Wilfred Pogachnick
Michael Popko
George L Potts
Benjamin C Praeger
Paul L Pyeritz
Gary Radford
Charles Leroy Raiford
Russell W Richert
Robert Ringler
Paul Riper
George Rose
Peter J Rota
Joseph Rudolph
Edward Ruscitti
Russel J Saar
Francis R Sabol
Frederick Sargent
Edward Schang
Vinture Sciarretti
George H Scott
Tomas Shanahan
Joseph A Shields
Thomas A. Shipe

William Shomo
Michael Sims
Cyrille Singleton
John M Smolak
John F Sobocinsci
Donald T Speicher
Lawrence Stack
William Stampahar
Charles G Stilley
Walter G. Stockdale
John A Storm
John G Stupar
Jack H Stype
Richard Svitek
John C Tokarcik
Michael T Tomasko
Victor J Tomsko
George J Torbic
Walter Trbovich
Frederick Tregaskes
John F Tuchnowski
Michael Urban Jr.
James Van Riper
Edward P Vickless
Richard Vogel
Thomas M Wagner
Nelson M Waldron
Joseph E Walkney
Regis P Walsh
Clarence P Walter
Stanley Wasik
Harry D Weiland
Logan Weston
Joseph E Wirth
Peter Wolff
Lenard Wolper
George C. Yates
Luis W Yochum
Charles Allen Yoder
Leonard Zankel
Sigmund Zelczak
William Zepp 

THUNDERBIRDS

David Nick Hauck                                     Mingo Junction Ohio

63 TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

Tuskegee Airman /992 who never lost a bomber in >3000 missions shot down or destroyed 256 enemy planes

Jim Addison                                Sewickley PA

Willam H Bailey                          Pittsburgh PA

George C Bolden                       Pittsburgh PA

Curtis Branch                             Sewickley PA

Milton R Brooks                         Glassport PA

William G Carter                        Pittsburgh PA

Matthew J Corbin                      Pittsburgh PA

William Curtis Jr.                       Sewickley PA

Claude C Davis                         Pittsburgh PA

Jerome T Edwards                   Steubernvile Ohio

John E Edwards                       Steubernvile Ohio

William Gilliam                          Sewickley PA

Robert M Glass                        Pittsburgh PA

Cornelius P Gould Jr.               Pittsburgh PA

George B Greenlee, Jr.            Pittsburgh PA

Frank Hailstock Jr.                   Sewickley PA

Edward Harris                          Pittsburgh PA

Mitchell Higginbotham             Sewickley PA

Robert Higginbotham              Sewickley PA

William Holton                         Johnstown PA

Frank A Jackson                     Youngstown Ohio

Robert M Johnson                  Pittsburgh PA

William A Johnston, Jr.           Sewickley PA

Theodore O Mason                Cadiz Ohio

William B Morgan                   Yukon PA

Robert H Nelson                     Pittsburgh PA

George J Parker                     Youngstown Ohio

Roscoe C Perkins, Jr.             Cannonsburg PA

Mexion O Prewitt                     East Berkley WVa

John A Rector                         Pittsburgh PA

George Spencer Roberts        Fairmount WVa

William A Rucker                     Washington PA

Charles W Tate                       Pittsburgh PA

Elmer W Taylor                       Pittsburgh PA

William A Tyler, Jr.                  Pittsburgh PA

James T Wiley                        Pittsburgh PA

Carl J Woods                          Mars PA

James W Wright, Jr.               Pittsburgh PA