Editing Silver Star (section)

==Recipients==
[[File:Cheney Presents Silver Star to Spc. Monica Brown.jpg|thumb|[[United States Army|Army]] [[Specialist (rank)|Specialist]] [[Monica Lin Brown]] receives the Silver Star from then-[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]], 2008]]
The Department of Defense does not keep extensive records for the Silver Star Medal. Independent groups estimate that between 100,000 and 150,000 SSMs have been awarded since the decoration was established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://homeofheroes.com/silver-star/ |title=Silver Star Medal |website=Home of Heroes |access-date=2008-12-16}}</ref> [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[David Hackworth]] who was awarded ten SSMs while serving in the Army during the Korean War and Vietnam War, is likely to be the person awarded the most SSMs.<ref>{{cite interview |access-date=9 October 2012 |url=http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,NI_Hackworth_1202,00.html |title=Look Truth Right in the Eye |first=Col. David H. |last=Hackworth |interviewer=Fred L. Schultz and Gordon Keiser |date=December 2002 |website=Military.com}}</ref> [[General of the Army (United States)|General of the Army]] [[Douglas MacArthur]] was awarded seven SSMs for his service in France in [[World War I]] from February to November 1918 as a colonel and then brigadier general. Donald H. Russell, a civilian [[Vought F4U Corsair]] technical support engineer attached to a [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] fighter wing, received the SSM for his actions aboard {{USS|Franklin|CV-13|6}} after the carrier was attacked by a Japanese [[dive bomber]] in March 1945.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/11/07/88311012.pdf |title=First Civilian Wins Navy Silver Star |date=7 November 1945 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=12 |access-date=8 May 2019}}</ref> In the fall of 1944, President Roosevelt's close adviser [[Harry Hopkins]], the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow [[W. Averell Harriman]] and a military attaché presented the SSM to [[Red Army|Soviet Red Army]] artillery officer Alexei Voloshin, who was the first to cross the Dnieper with his battery<ref>{{Citation |title=Panzer Killers: Anti-Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front|mode=cs1 }}</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2021}} and was one of four junior Red Army officers who received the award.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://molodeznoe.tv/en/society/rosgvardiia-otmetit-paradom-100-letnie-frontovika-kavalera-vysshih-nagrad-sssr-i-ssha.html |title=Rosguard celebrates the parade with 100-year-old front-line soldier, holder of the highest awards of the USSR and the USA |website=Molodeznoe.tv |language=en |access-date=1 March 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301161738/https://molodeznoe.tv/en/society/rosgvardiia-otmetit-paradom-100-letnie-frontovika-kavalera-vysshih-nagrad-sssr-i-ssha.html |archive-date=1 March 2020}}</ref>

===Female recipients===
Three Army nurses that served in World War I were cited in 1919 and 1920 with Citation Stars for gallantry in attending to the wounded while under artillery fire in July 1918. In 2007, it was discovered that they had never been awarded their Citation Stars. The three nurses (Army nurses served without rank until 1920) were awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously:<ref name="auto">{{cite journal |title=The Overlooked Heroines: Three Silver Star Nurses of World War I |first1=Richard M. |last1=Prior |first2=William Sanders |last2=Marble |date=1 May 2008 |journal=Military Medicine |volume=173 |issue=5 |pages=493–498 |doi=10.7205/milmed.173.5.493 |pmid=18543572 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Daughter Accepts Silver Star Her World War I Nurse Mother Earned |url=https://www.army.mil/article/4259/daughter-accepts-silver-star-her-world-war-i-nurse-mother-earned/ |website=United States Army |access-date=9 October 2012 |date=2 August 2007}}</ref>
* [[Jane Rignel]] – Mobile Hospital No. 2, [[42nd Infantry Division (United States)|42nd Division]], for gallantry in "giving aid to the wounded under heavy fire" in France on 15 July 1918
* Linnie Leckrone – Shock Team No. 134, Field Hospital No. 127, [[32nd Infantry Division (United States)|32nd Division]], for gallantry while "attending to the wounded during an artillery bombardment" in France on 29 July 1918
* Irene Robar – Shock Team No. 134, Field Hospital No. 127, 32nd Division, for gallantry while "attending to the wounded during an artillery bombardment" in France on 29 July 1918

An unknown number of servicewomen received the award in World War II. Four Army nurses serving in Italy during the war—[[First Lieutenant]] Mary Roberts, [[Second Lieutenant]] [[Elaine Roe]], Second Lieutenant Rita Virginia Rourke, and Second Lieutenant [[Ellen Ainsworth]] (posthumous)—became the first women recipients of the Silver Star, all cited for their bravery in evacuating the 33rd Field Hospital at [[Anzio]] on 10 February 1944.<ref name=foxnews /> Later that same year, Corporal [[Maggie Leones]], a Filipino who later immigrated to the United States, received the medal for [[Clandestine operation|clandestine]] activities on [[Luzon]];<ref>{{cite news |last=Drummond |first=Tammerlin |date=17 June 2016 |title=Filipina Silver Star winner, Richmond resident Magdalena Leones dies at 95 |url=http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_30029083/filipina-silver-star-winner-richmond-resident-magdalena-leones |newspaper=East Bay Times |access-date=18 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=88163 |title=Magdalena Leones |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Military Times Hall of Valor |access-date=18 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Leonardo Q. |last=Nuval |title=Remember Them Kindly: Some Filipinos During World War II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ib9wAAAAMAAJ|year=1996 |publisher=Claretian Publications |isbn=978-971-501-678-0 |page=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Guillermo |first=Emil |date=5 July 2016 |title=Magdalena Leones, Filipina WWII Silver Star Recipient Who Aided MacArthur, Dies in California |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/magdalena-leones-filipina-wwii-silver-star-recepient-who-aided-macarthur-n603566 |work=NBC News |access-date=15 March 2018}}</ref> {{as of|2016|lc=y}}, she is the only female Asian to receive a Silver Star.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=21 June 2016 |title=Only Filipina WWII US Silver Star recipient dies at 95 |url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/140317/only-asian-female-wwii-us-silver-star-recipient-dies-at-95 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |location=Makati City |access-date=15 March 2018 |quote=Filipino WWII veterans and her family members mourn the passing of Cpl. Magdalena Estoista Leones, 95, who entered the history books as the only Asian female to have been awarded the Silver Star in World War II for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.}}</ref>

The next known servicewomen to receive the Silver Star were Army National Guard [[Sergeant]] [[Leigh Ann Hester]] in 2005, for gallantry during an insurgent ambush on a convoy in [[Iraq]]<ref name=foxnews /> and Army [[Specialist (rank)|Specialist]] [[Monica Lin Brown]] in March 2008, for extraordinary heroism as a [[combat medic]] in the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]].<ref name=foxnews>{{cite news |last=Abrashi |first=Fisnik |title=Medic Stationed in Afghanistan Becomes 2nd Woman to Be Awarded Silver Star |work=[[Fox News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=9 March 2008 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/medic-stationed-in-afghanistan-becomes-2nd-woman-to-be-awarded-silver-star}}</ref>

On November 12, 2024, Capt Lacie “Sonic” Hester, [[494th Fighter Squadron]], became the first woman airman awarded the Silver Star for her role in the shootdown of more than 80 Iranian drones launched at Israeli cities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skovlund |first=Joshua |date=2024-11-15 |title=Air Force captain becomes first woman in service history to receive Silver Star as crews honored for drone fight |url=https://taskandpurpose.com/news/first-female-air-force-silver-star-recipient/#:~:text=U.S.%20Air%20Force%20Capt.,to%20receive%20the%20Silver%20Star. |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=Task & Purpose |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Notable recipients ===
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*[[Joseph H. Albers]]
*[[John R. Alison]]
*[[Darr H. Alkire]]
*[[Bull Allen (soldier)|Leslie "Bull" Allen]]
*[[Royal B. Allison]]
*[[Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr.]]
*[[Samuel E. Anderson]]
*[[Bernard L. Austin]]
*[[Lloyd Austin]]

*[[William Brantley Aycock]]
*[[Peter Badcoe]] (two awards)
*[[John Bahnsen]] (five awards) 
*[[Vernon Baker]]
*[[Robert H. Barrow]]
*[[Olinto Barsanti]]
*[[César Basa]]
*[[Harry F. Bauer]]
*[[Walter C. Beckham]](four awards)
*[[Charles Alvin Beckwith]]
*[[David Bellavia]] (Upgraded to the [[Medal of Honor]] in 2019)
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*[[Rafael Celestino Benítez]]
*[[Frank Bladin]]
*[[Everett Ernest Blakely]]
*[[Albert Blithe]]
*[[Larry "Scrappy" Blumer]]
*[[Royal L. Bolling]]
*[[Richard Bong]]
*[[Paul Boesch]]
*[[Bruce Godfrey Brackett]]
*[[Omar Bradley]]
*[[Roland L. Bragg]]
*[[Neville Brand]]
*[[Maurice L. Britt]]
*[[Monica Lin Brown]]
*[[Hubert Buchanan]]
*[[Phil H. Bucklew]]
*[[Arleigh Burke]]
*[[Jess Cain]]
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*[[Modesto Cartagena]]
*[[Alwyn Cashe]] (Upgraded to the Medal of Honor in 2021)
*[[Johnny Checketts]]
*[[Llewellyn Chilson]] (three awards)
*[[David A. Christian|David Christian]] (two awards)
*[[Nestor Chylak]]
*[[Wesley Clark]]
*[[Max Cleland]]
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*[[Lynn Compton]]
*[[Garlin Murl Conner]] (four awards)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/04/battle-joined-army-panel-backs-wwii-vets-posthumous-bid-for-medal-honor/?intcmp=hpbt1 |title=Battle joined: Army panel backs WWII vet's posthumous bid for Medal of Honor |website=Fox News |date=4 November 2015}}</ref>
*[[John Thomas Corley]] (eight awards)
*[[Alan "Ace" Cozzalio]] (two awards)
*[[Louis Cukela]]
*[[William J. Cullerton]]<ref name="mtimes">{{cite web |first=Maureen |last=O'Donnell |title=William J. Cullerton |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/6059 |work=[[Military Times]] Hall of Valor |access-date=2013-01-25}}</ref> 
*[[Roy M. Davenport]]
*[[Juan César Cordero Dávila]]
*[[Benjamin O. Davis Jr.]]
*[[Ray Davis (U.S. Marine)|Ray Davis]]
*[[Oliver W. Dillard]]
*[[James H. Doolittle]]
*[[Wayne A. Downing]] (two awards)
*[[Hugh A. Drum]]
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* [[Jesus S. Duran]] (upgraded to the Medal of Honor, 2014)
*[[Charles Durning]]
*[[Graves B. Erskine]]
*[[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]]
*[[Joseph A. Farinholt]]
*[[Geoffrey Cheney Ferris]]
*[[Bernard Francis Fisher|Bernard Fisher]]
*[[Wayne Fisk]]
*[[Martin H. Foery]]
*[[Ronald Fogleman]]
*[[John W. Foss]] (two awards)
*[[Mayhew Foster]]
*[[Guy Gabaldon]] (upgraded to the Navy Cross, 1960)
*[[Francis Gambacorta]]
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*[[James M. Gavin]]
*[[Hobart R. Gay]]
*[[Jerauld R. Gentry]]
*[[John J. Gilligan]]
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*[[Luigi Giorgi (soldier)|Luigi Giorgi]] (Italian serviceman)
*[[Mathew L. Golsteyn]]
*[[John W. Goode]]
*[[David E. Grange Jr.]] (three awards)
*[[David L. Grange]] (three awards)
*[[Charles Hercules Green|Charles H. Green]] (Cdr, [[3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment|3rd Bn, RAR]])
*[[John Campbell Greenway]]
*[[William Guarnere]]
*[[Ed Guthman]]
*[[Horatio B. Hackett]]
*[[David Hackworth]] (ten awards)
*[[Hugh William Hadley]]
*[[Alexander Haig]]
*[[Andrew Haldane]] (two awards)
*[[Robert Halperin]]
*[[Iceal Hambleton]]
*[[James C. Harding]]
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*[[John Harllee (admiral)|John Harllee]]
*[[Tom Harmon]]
*[[Raymond Harvey]]
*[[Carlos Hathcock]]
*[[Vern Haugland]] (first civilian award)
*[[Sterling Hayden]]
*[[Leo D. Hermle]] (three awards)
*[[Diego E. Hernández]]
*[[Leigh Ann Hester]]
*[[Clifford B. Hicks]]
*[[Thomas Taro Higa]]
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*[[David Lee "Tex" Hill]]
*[[Tony Hillerman]]
*[[Samuel Hogan|Samuel M Hogan]]
*[[Lucius Roy Holbrook]]
*[[Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon]]
*[[Joe Hooper (soldier)|Joe R. Hooper]] (two awards)
*[[Robert L. Howard]]
*[[Clifton James]]
*[[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]
*[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
*[[Phil Johnson (judge)|Phil Johnson]]
*[[Sam Johnson]] (two awards)
*[[James L. Jones]]
*[[James Taggart Kerr]] (two awards)
*[[John Kerry]]
*[[Jonny Kim]]
*[[Robert Kingston]] (two awards)
*[[Joseph Kittinger]] (two awards)
*[[Charles C. Krulak]]
*[[Chris Kyle]]
*[[Henry Louis Larsen]] (three awards)
*[[Ben Lear]] <!-- Please do not add additional people to this list unless there is already an article on them -->
*[[John C. H. Lee]]
*[[Kurt Chew-Een Lee]]
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*[[Homer Litzenberg]]
*[[Elliott Loughlin]] (two awards)
*[[Douglas MacArthur]] (seven awards)
*[[Victor Maghakian]] (two awards)
*[[Fred K. Mahaffey]] (three awards)
*[[Peyton C. March]]
*[[Richard Marcinko]]
*[[George Marshall]]
*[[Richard Marshall (American general)|Richard Marshall]]
*[[Barry McCaffrey]] (two awards)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/7445#29700 |title=Barry McCaffrey |website=Military Times Hall Of Valor |access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/7445#30405 |title=Barry McCaffrey |website=Military Times Hall Of Valor |access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref>
*[[John McCain]]
*[[Rob Roy McGregor (admiral)|Rob Roy McGregor]] (three awards)
*[[H.R. McMaster|Herbert Raymond "H.R." McMaster]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/personnel/silver.htm |title=List of Silver Star Recipients |website=American War Library}}</ref>
*[[Sid McMath]]
*[[John McNulty (U.S. Marine Corps)|John McNulty]] (two awards)
*[[William A. McNulty]]
*[[William K. MacNulty]] 
*[[Merrill A. McPeak]]
*[[Charles B. McVay III]]
*[[Richard J. Meadows]] (two awards)
*[[Ray Melikian]] (three awards)
*[[Robert Mellard]] (two awards)
*[[Charles L. Melson]]
*[[Daniel J. Miller]]
*[[Michael A. Monsoor]]
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*[[Cliff Montgomery]]
*[[Audie Murphy]] (two awards)
*[[Michael P. Murphy]] (upgraded to MOH)
*[[Raymond Murray]] (four awards)
*[[Bismarck Myrick]]
*[[Oliver North]]
*[[Henry Ringling North]]
*[[Levi Oakes]]
*[[Mike O'Callaghan]]
*[[Eric T. Olson]]
*[[Jorge Otero Barreto]] (two awards)
*[[Mohamed Oufkir]]
*[[Roy Earl Parrish]]
*[[Moultrie Patten]]
*[[George S. Patton]]
*[[George Patton IV]]
*[[Keith Payne]]
*[[Endicott Peabody]]
*[[John J. Pershing]]
*[[Basil L. Plumley]] (two awards)
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*[[Pascal Poolaw]] (four awards)
*[[Nick Popaditch]]
*[[Milton C. Portmann]]
*[[Charles E. Potter]]
*[[Geronimo Pratt]]
*[[Tommy Prince]]
*[[Francis Gary Powers]]
*[[Ralph Puckett]] (two awards)
*[[Chesty Puller]]
*[[Lewis Burwell Puller Jr.]]
*[[Agustín Ramos Calero]]
*[[William Wilson Quinn]]
*[[Edward F. Rector]]
*[[Stephen C. Reich]]
*[[Rick Rescorla]]
*[[Robert B. Rheault]]
*[[Karl W. Richter]]
*[[Matthew Ridgway]] (two awards)
*[[Antonio Rodríguez Balinas]]
*[[Pedro Rodriguez (soldier)|Pedro Rodriguez]] (two awards)<ref name="Williams 2004">{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Rudi |title=Korean War Double Hero Reflects on Life |website=United States Department of Defense |date=2004-03-25 |url=https://archive.defense.gov/specials/heroes/rodriguez.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930152125/http://archive.defense.gov/specials/heroes/rodriguez.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2017 |access-date=2021-02-06}}</ref>
*[[Robert Rosenthal (USAF)|Robert Rosenthal]]
*[[Barney Ross]]
*[[James N. Rowe]]
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*[[Dick Rutan]]
*[[Alfredo M. Santos]]
*[[Paul Saunders]]
*[[Harold Schrier]]
*[[Leonard T. Schroeder|Leonard T. Schroeder Jr.]]
*[[Robert Lee Scott Jr.|Robert L. Scott]]
*[[Nate Self]]
*[[Arthur D. Simons]]
*[[Rodger W. Simpson]]
*[[Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.|H. Norman Schwarzkopf]]
*[[Ben Schwartzwalder]]
*[[Sidney Shachnow]]
*[[Charles Bradford Smith]]
*[[Frederick W. Smith]]
*[[Oliver Prince Smith]]
*[[Ronald Speirs]]
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*[[Michael G. Stahl]] (two awards)
*[[Brian Stann]]
*[[James Stockdale]] (four awards)
*[[George L. Street III]]
*[[Samuel D. Sturgis Jr.]]
*[[Richard K. Sutherland]]
*[[Thomas Tigue]]
*[[Richard Tilghman]]
*[[Pat Tillman]]
*[[Michel Thomas]]
*[[Floyd James Thompson]]
*[[William F. Train|William F. Train II]]
*[[Matt Urban]] (two awards)
*[[James Van Fleet]] (three awards)
*[[Paul K. Van Riper]] (two awards)
*[[Humbert Roque Versace]]
*[[Nicolas Walsh (physician)|Nicolas Walsh]] (two awards)
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*[[John T. Walton]]
*[[Rawleigh Warner Jr.]]
*[[Billy Waugh]]
*[[Jim Webb]]
*[[Haskell Wexler]]
*[[Kevin Wheatley]]
*[[Joshua Wheeler]]
*[[Charles Willeford]]
*[[James E. Williams]] (two awards)
*[[Royce Williams]]
*[[Jocko Willink]]
*[[Theodore H. Winters Jr.]] (three awards)
*[[Jerauld Wright]]
*[[Tahsin Yazıcı]]
*[[Chuck Yeager]] (two awards)
*[[Elton Younger]]
*[[Albert C. Zapanta]]
*[[Douglas A. Zembiec]]
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