Mouchotte book's in English and it's well worth reading. I will try and check if there are documents in English about medal recepients . I'll try the Compagnons de la Liberation list first.

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C.Evans it's going to be a belated Christmas for you:

I found the complete list of the 1038 holders of the Ordre de la Liberation (one of the rarest French distinctions). Amongst these men are Winston Churchill and king George VI.
I believe only 63 of these brave people are still alive.

http://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr...compagnons.pdf

the history of this award is here (in English)
Ordre de la Libération - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'll try to get the Legion d'honneur too but that's going to be harder.

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It's a difficult one in many ways as so much courageos conduct has happened since these awards were first instituted,

As for VC Winners i would have to go with the late Capt Dick Annand 2 DLI , first Army VC of World War 2 , this is for two reasons although his award has been very well documented and was richly deserved Dick was deaf for his entire life as a result of his wounds suffered in the action and yet still gave a lifetime of service and care to others , the second reason was i knew him personally as a friend and i know what a tremendous human being and man of honour he was.

Knights Cross winners is difficult as well but for sheer in your face battlefield courage throughout the war i would have to agree with Carl that SS Unterscharfuhrer Remy Schrynen should get a mention , a man small of stature but a giant on the Battlefield.

Can't not mention my late friend SS Hauptscharfuhrer Sepp Lainer who fought throughout the war until his capture in Normandy at the front with the DF Regt.

Would also include the highly decorated infantryman Helmut Meitzel who fought throughout the war with IR 15 of 29 ID (Mot) from France / Russia / Stalingrad / Italy he won every German bravery award that was availiable and yet is pretty much unknown.

One of the guys who i have met at OdR meetings in Germany is the only living Heer Swords winner Waldermar von Gazen who incredibly won the KC,EL and Swords as a combat level infantry officer in Southern Russia during 1942/43 , he never seems to feature in lists such as this so i include him as well.

Paul

Well said Paul, so many brave men from all nationalities are never mentionned.

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Has to be Audie Murphy. Most decorated US soldier of WW2 and rose from Private to Captain in 4 years. A legend

it seems like Audie is getting to be one of our favorite heroes! I'm glad he is still so popular in many countries. Remember I posted pictures of his memorial in France in the Alsace thread a few monts ago.

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Thank you Skipper, I owe you much gratitude for all of this. ;-))

From another site, im going to see if I can get a list from a member there-who has a list of American, French and British/Commonwealth; recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union. This stuff is something i've also wanted for many years and never found anything of.....

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.