Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
 September 7, 2004
Medal of Honor production
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
New York City, June, 1968: A worker at His Lordship Products, Inc., on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, removes a Medal of Honor from the die on which it has been stamped from a star-shaped metal blank. The company was the holder of the exclusive contract to produce the nation's highest military award, providing about 600 of them to the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps between 1963 and 1968. The order that was being filled when the photo was taken was for 90 medals. The last two Medals of Honor were presented in 1993 for heroism in Somalia, although 41 have since been given by Presidents Clinton and Bush to correct past errors or in light of new evidence. A total of 245 servicemembers received the Medal of Honor for combat actions during the Vietnam war.

RELATED MATERIAL
Click here to read Stripes' 1969 story about the production of the Medal of Honor.
Click here for the Web site of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

Past photos of the day

September, 2004
September 6, 2004: The Beatles onstage at Tokyo's Budokan hall, 1966
September 5, 2004: Rev. Billy Graham at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam, 1968
September 4, 2004: Accident on a dangerous stretch of the German autobahn, 1953
September 3, 2004: Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III returns after 5½ years as a POW, 1973
September 2, 2004: Mother Theresa speaks in Tokyo, 1981
September 1, 2004: Life in West Berlin during the Soviet blockade, 1948

August, 2004
August 31, 2004: Last of a vanishing breed, a lighter of gas street lamps in Munich, 1961
August 30, 2004: Civilians flee fighting at Bung Cau, South Vietnam, 1972
August 29, 2004: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader in Tokyo, 1971
August 28, 2004: Former vice president Richard Nixon and old friend Anna Chennault, 1965
August 27, 2004: Director John Huston on the set of The Bible in Italy, 1964
August 26, 2004: NBA star David Thompson conducts a basketball camp in Japan, 1983
August 25, 2004: Baseball star Carl Yastrzemski in Tokyo, 1973
August 24, 2004: Dadaist painter and photographer Man Ray at his Paris studio, 1965
August 23, 2004: Actress Jayne Mansfield visits the troops in Germany, 1957
August 22, 2004: Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller stops in Tokyo, 1975
August 21, 2004: Maj. Roger Donlon, the Vietnam war's first Medal of Honor recipient, 1967
August 20, 2004: An OV-10 Bronco in action over South Vietnam, 1968
August 19, 2004: U.S. Olympic basketball coach Hank Iba protests the loss to the Soviets, 1972
August 18, 2004: Benny Goodman, "The King of Swing," in Tokyo, 1964
August 17, 2004: College football coaching legend Eddie Robinson of Grambling State, 1977
August 16, 2004: President Eisenhower rides to the White House on Inauguration Day, 1953
August 15, 2004: Gossip columnist Walter Winchell, 1953
August 14, 2004: Taiwan schoolchildren celebrate Chiang Kai-shek's re-election, 1972
 August 13, 2004: NFL star and Vietnam veteran Rocky Bleier with troops in Korea, 1975 (With stories)
 August 12, 2004: A 50-foot King Kong is unveiled for a movie promotion in Japan, 1986 (With story)
 August 11, 2004: Comedian Joey Bishop in Vietnam, 1968 (With story)
 August 10, 2004: Astronaut John Glenn arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With stories)
 August 9, 2004: Ann-Margret at Torrejon Air Base, Spain, 1964 (With story and additional photos)
 August 8, 2004: Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler in Tokyo, 1965 (With story)
August 7, 2004: The Mills Brothers onstage in South Korea, 1963
 August 6, 2004: Hiroshima Peace Park, 1977 (With additional photos)
 August 5, 2004: Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand in South Korea, 1967 (With story)
 August 4, 2004: U.S. Army Europe boxing tournament action, 1957 (With additional photos)
 August 3, 2004: Jockey Mary Bacon, on the track in Tokyo, 1978 (With story)
 August 2, 2004: Actress Gina Lollobrigida promotes her book of photographs, 1974 (With story)
 August 1, 2004: Expert bottle-balancer from the USS Midway, 1977 (With story)

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