Decorations register · Notice Nearby
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Jose M. Lopez
1912–2005
Sergeant First Class (Medal of Honor action as Private First Class / Sergeant)
Weapons Platoon, Company M, 3d Battalion, 23d Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division (near Krinkelt, Belgium, 17 December 1944); later Korea and Vietnam-era service
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named on VA Veterans Legacy Memorial decorations list for Jose Mendoza Lopez. Birth year on CMOHS is 1912 (Mission, Texas); VLM memorial header uses 1910 — this pack follows CMOHS for birth year.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Named as Bronze Star Medal on the same VA Veterans Legacy Memorial decorations list. Do not invent a Combat “V” or oak-leaf count without a matching official device list on this page.
Public sources
Jose M. Lopez’s Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal are named on the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Legacy Memorial decorations list for his service. The Congressional Medal of Honor Society holds the Medal of Honor citation for near Krinkelt, Belgium, December 17, 1944. This decorations page records the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal from the VA memorial list. It will not invent a Silver Star that list does not name, and it will not place a Medal of Honor chip on this awards row.
On the first day of the German Ardennes offensive, Lopez moved a heavy machine gun from flank to flank under tank and infantry fire, held shallow cover, and covered his company’s withdrawal. That citation is the public record of valor. The Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal are the published decoration names on the VA memorial. They are not the same sentence.
He is not yet on a war-roll essay. Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery burial and later decades of Army service are public fact. They are not printed here as medals.
This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.
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