Air Force Medal of Honor recipients include service members recognized for bravery, valor, courage, gallantry, conspicuous gallantry, conspicuous leadership, and extreme valor in actions from 1918 to 1972 across France, Germany, Romania, Japan, New Britain, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Belgium, Italy, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Morocco, and the South China Sea, including honors awarded for service while prisoners of war during the Vietnam conflict.