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Wall of Heroes

Honoring the Legacy of Jewish Heroes in the United States Armed Forces

The Wall of Heroes is a tribute to the brave Jewish service members who dedicated their lives to defending the United States and its values since its founding. Each hero’s story reflects courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment to both faith and country. Join us in celebrating their legacy.

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Charles L. Solomon

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergeant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Branch Icon Service Period: April 11, 1942 - November 5, 1943
  • Birthday Icon Birthday: ?
  • Yahrtzeit Icon Yahrtzeit: 7 Cheshvan 5704
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For more information on this Jewish American hero, please read this article about Operation Benjamin, from our Jewish-American Warrior magazine.

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Mendy Ganchrow

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Major
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1967-1970
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 14 Adar I 5782
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Gerald Fink

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Colonel
  • Branch Icon Branch: Marines
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 18 Cheshvan 5748
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David Max Eichhorn

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1941 - 1968
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 9 Tammuz 5746
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Ernst M Lorge

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Major
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 1 Adar II 5750
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Frederick Charles Salomon

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Brigadier General
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1861 - 1865
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 4 Adar II 5657
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Charles Eberhard Salomon

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Brevet Brigadier General
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1861 - 1864
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 9 Shevat 5641
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Herman Salomon

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergeant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: September 4, 1861 - September 28, 1864
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 26 Elul 5641
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Paul Sternfeld

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Tech Sergeant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1939-1945
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 3 Kislev 5782
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Sam Cordova

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Corporal
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 9 Tevet 5702
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Benjamin Garadetsky

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private 1st Class
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: February 17, 1941 - August 23, 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 4 Elul 5704
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Charles L. Solomon

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergeant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: April 11, 1942 - November 5, 1943
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 7 Cheshvan 5704
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Joseph M. Sugarman, Jr.

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 1st Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: June 16, 1941 - March 11, 1945
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 26 Tishrei 5705
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Kenneth E. Robinson.

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 2nd Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: January 26, 1942 - August 17, 1943
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 16 Av 5703
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Marvin F. Ashkenas

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private 1st Class
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: June 29, 1942 - October 3, 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 16 Tishrei 5704
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Everett M. Seixas, Jr.

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Technician fifth grade
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 11 Tevet 5705
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Albert Belmont

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 14 Kislev 5705
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Max Papurt

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Major
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 13 Kislev 5705
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Jack Gilbert

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergeant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1942 - 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 23 Shevat 5704
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Frank B. Solomon

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 1st Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Royal Canadian Air Force and US Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 7 Tevet 5704
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Robert S. Fink

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 1st Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 10 Sivan 5704
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Allan C. Franken

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: April 14, 1943 - May 24, 1945
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 12 Sivan 5705
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Arthur Waldman

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 21 Tevet 5704
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Louis Wolf

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: March 19, 1941 - March 17, 1945
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 3 Nisan 5705
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Harvey S. Hoffman

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 1st Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: October 15, 1940 - February 12, 1945
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 27 Tishrei 5705
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Simon Goodman

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: October 29, 1943 - July 30, 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 10 Av 5704
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Ralph Greenstein

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private 1st Class
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 22 Nisan 5705
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Abraham Greenwalt

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Medal of Honor
  • Branch Icon Branch: Union Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1862 - 1865
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 5 Cheshvan 5683
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Louis Peskin

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Staff Sergeant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: July 7, 1941 - January 10, 1946
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 23 Tevet 5770
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Fredric Lionel Arnold

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Major
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1942 - 1943
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 14 Sivan 5778
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Leo Goldner

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 1st Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1942 – 1946
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 6 Shevat 5780
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Benjamin Levy

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergeant
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Medal of Honor
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1861–1863, 1864–1865
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 14 Tammuz 5681
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Sam Sachs

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Medal of Honor
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1931 - 1963
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 11 Adar II 5782
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Sigmund Schlesinger1

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: ?
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Silver Star
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1867 - 1868
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 23 Adar II 5678
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Barney Ross

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergeant
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Silver Star
  • Branch Icon Branch: Marine Corps
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1942 - 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 6 Shevat 5727
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Herman Wouk

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Lieutenant
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Service Cross
  • Branch Icon Branch: Navy
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1942–1946
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 12 Iyar 5779
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Seymour Nussenbaum

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Private 1st Class
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: February 23, 1943 - November 1945
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 3 Tishrei 5785
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Howard U. Feldman

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 2nd Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: ? - April 25, 1945
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 12 Iyar 5705
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Uriah P Levy

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Commodore
  • Branch Icon Branch: Navy
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1812-1862
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 20 Adar II 5622
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Aaron Bank

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: COL
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1942 - 1958
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 10 Nisan 5764
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Ben Moreell

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Admiral
  • Branch Icon Branch: Navy
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1917 - 1946
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 25 Tammuz 5738
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Julius Ochs Adler

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Major General
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Silver Star, Service Cross
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1915 - 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 17 Tishrei 5716
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Ben Sternberg

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Major General
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Silver Star, Service Cross
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1930 – 1934, 1938 – 1971
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 8 Tevet 5764
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Sidney Shachnow

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Major General
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Silver Star
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1955–1994
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 18 Tishrei 5779
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Solomon Isquith

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Rear Admiral
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Navy Cross
  • Branch Icon Branch: Navy
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1920 - 1947
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 6 Iyar 5729
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Henry George Plitt

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Brigadier General
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Silver Star
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: Before WW2 - ?
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 4 Shevat 5753
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Tibor Rubin

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Corporal
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Medal of Honor
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: July 23, 1950, - April 20, 1953
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 23 Kislev 5776
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Raymond Zussman

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 2nd Lieutenant
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Medal of Honor
  • Branch Icon Branch: Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1941 - 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 4 Tishrei 5705
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Edward Feldman

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: LT Commander
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Silver Star
  • Branch Icon Branch: Navy
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1962 - ?
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 13 Tishrei 5778
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Frances Y Slanger

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: 1st Lieutenant
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1943 - 1944
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 4 Cheshvan 5705
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Richard Stern

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergant
  • Branch Icon Branch: German Army and US Army
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: German Army: WW1 US Army: WW2
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 28 Tevet 5769
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John Levitow

  • Rank Icon Rank Attained: Sergeant
  • Medals/Awards Medals/Awards: Medal of Honor
  • Branch Icon Branch: Air Force
  • Service Period Icon Service Period: 1966 - 1970
  • Service Period Icon Yahrtzeit: 10 Cheshvan 5761