1950: Major Louis J. Sebille, flying on a combat mission in the Korean War, received the first Medal of Honor awarded to a member of the Air Force. The medal itself was still the Army version and did not change until the 1960s. Sebille had flown 68 combat missions in World War II as a B-26 bomber pilot. In the fall of 1948, he took command of the 67th Squadron, 18th Fighter-Bomber Group. When the Korean War began, his squadron was one of the first sent to Japan.
