Near Phoenixville in Chester County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
1. Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients Marker
PVT Peter Anderson, USA Maj Richard I. Bong, USMC
1SGT Elmer J. Burr, USA LT Guy W. S. Castle, USN
PFC Stanley R. Christianson, USMC SGT Jefferson Coates, USA
PVT James E. Croft, USA LT Abraham De Somer, USN
PVT Horace Ellis, USA SSGT Gerald L. Endl, USA
CAPT Harold Fritz, USA PVT Theodore Goldin, USA
SGT Kenneth E. Gruennert, USA MSGT Melvin O. Handrich, USA
SGT Frank E. Hill, USA SGT Einar H. Ingman, Jr.,USA
Maj John L. Jerstad, USAF CAPT Hugh J. McGrath, USA
GEN Douglas MacArthur, USA SSgt Andrew Miller, USA
MGEN William C. Mitchell, USA CPL Daniel B. Moore, USA
SGT Charles E. Mower, USA 1LT Beryl R. Newman, USA
SGT Truman O. Olson, USA WTC Oscar V. Peterson, USA
CPL Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., USA PVT Marcus M. Robbins, USA
SGT William H. Sickles, USA PVT Clayton K. Slack, USA
SSGT Kenneth B. Stumpf, USA 2LT Jerome A. Sudut, USA
PVT Edwin M. Truell, USA CAPT Franklin Van Valkenburgh, USN SP4 Gary G. Wetzel, USA
Bugler Claron A. Windus, USA CDR Cassin Young, USN
PVT Frank Albert Young, USMC Capt Lance P. Sijan, USAF
CPT Ben L. Salomon, USA SGT John S. Durham, USA
PVT John Johnson, USA SGT Dennis J. F. Murphy, USA
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PVT George F. Pond, USA
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military. In addition, it is included in the Medal of Honor Recipients series list.
Location. 40° 6.319′ N, 75° 28.178′ W. Memorial is near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, in Chester County. It can be reached from River Trail. Marker is in the Medal of Honor Grove on the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge campus. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1601 Valley Forge Road, Phoenixville PA 19460, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Southeast Pennsylvania and in Greater Philadelphia. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Ohio Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Michigan Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Kennedy Memorial Gazebo (within shouting distance of this marker); Pennsylvania Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Indiana Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Minnesota Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Illinois Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); New York Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Phoenixville.
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Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
2. Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients Memorial Obelisk
1. National Medal of Honor Museum. Website homepage (Submitted on November 13, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
2. Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. (Submitted on November 13, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
3. Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients Memorial Plaza
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
4. Wisconsin State Seal on Memorial Obelisk
Credits. This page was last revised on March 1, 2025. It was originally submitted on November 9, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 218 times since then and 6 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on November 9, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. 3, 4. submitted on November 13, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
