Gold Star Veterans : California Medal of Honor

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	Name	State	Date	War	Branch
1	Leonard Louis Alvarado	CA	08-12-1969	Vietnam	Army
2	James Anderson Jr	CA	02-28-1967	Vietnam	Marines
3	Leslie Allen Bellrichard	CA	05-20-1967	Vietnam	Army
4	Daniel Judson Callaghan	CA	11-13-1942	WW II	Navy
5	Ralph Cheli	CA	03-06-1944	WW II	Army AF
6	Reginald Benjamin Desiderio	CA	11-27-1950	Korea	Army
7	Edward Allen DeVore Jr	CA	03-18-1968	Vietnam	Army
8	Donald Ward Evans Jr	CA	01-27-1967	Vietnam	Army
9	Paul Hellstrom Foster	CA	10-14-1967	Vietnam	Marines
10	Joe Gandara	CA	06-09-1944	WW II	Army
11	Harold Gonsalves	CA	04-15-1945	WW II	Marines
12	David M Gonzales	CA	04-25-1945	WW II	Army
13	Joe J Hayashi	CA	04-22-1945	WW II	Army
14	George Alan Ingalls	CA	04-16-1967	Vietnam	Army
15	Herbert Charpiot Jones	CA	12-07-1941	WW II	Navy
16	★ Victor Leonard Kandle	WA	12-31-1944	WW II	Army
17	Jack William Kelso	CA	10-02-1952	Korea	Marines
18	Salvador J Lara	CA	09-01-1945	WW II	Army
19	★ Robert Ronald Leisy	WA	12-02-1969	Vietnam	Army
20	Andre Cavaro Lucas	CA	07-23-1970	Vietnam	Army

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