Explore verified institutions preserving Medal of Honor exhibits, original medals, recipient artifacts, archival material, and substantial historical collections. Each profile is written for visitors and researchers, with evidence boundaries made explicit.
Medal of Honor recipients appear within the museum’s interpretation of division leadership and combat legacy. A 2025 U.S. Army account of a curator-led museum tour specifically notes instruction on Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins and Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti as Medal of Honor recipients, while the Archive publishes a direct recipient link only where the current recipient corpus contains an unambiguous record.
The official Army museum record includes Medal of Honor interpretation and a Medal of Honor Courtyard, while the recipient-location record below connects the museum to William S. Sitman’s original medal. Together they establish both a named artifact relationship and a broader division tradition of valor.
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The division has one of the U.S. Army’s strongest Medal of Honor legacies. Museum reporting specifically identifies an M113 armored personnel carrier used by Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith during the 2003 action for which he received the Medal of Honor.
The official Army museum description identifies a Medal of Honor wall among its interpretive features. That unit-level recognition connects named recipients to the division’s larger combat history without implying possession of their original medals.
The museum interprets the division’s Medal of Honor legacy within the history of airborne service. This profile records that unit-level relationship without claiming a named original medal where direct object evidence has not been established. An Army museum guide additionally records the historical display of Alvin York’s uniform in the division’s World War I gallery; its 2026 exhibit location has not been re-confirmed.
The museum maintains a dedicated, museum-curated Medal of Honor recipient resource organized by conflict. That resource identifies recipients connected to the 1st Infantry Division, including personnel serving in direct support, while the Archive treats those links as interpretive division relationships rather than claims that each recipient’s personal Medal or artifacts are physically held at Cantigny.
The official recipient-location record for William Maud Bryant identifies the museum as a location of his original Medal of Honor. His Vietnam-era service provides a direct recipient connection to the museum’s broader special-warfare interpretation.
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The units interpreted here have extensive Medal of Honor histories. The Archive currently treats the museum as a high-value unit-history node rather than assigning individual recipient artifacts without exhibit-level evidence from the newly opened galleries.
Official Army documentation shows a Medal of Honor display integrated with the names of past 25th Infantry Division recipients. Separately, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society identifies the museum as the location of Fred Stewart Hay’s Medal of Honor, providing a documented original-Medal relationship.
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