# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-e-erwin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:19:48.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-e-erwin"
name: "Henry E. Erwin"
slug: "henry-e-erwin"
description: "Henry Eugene Erwin Sr. was a United States Army Air Forces airman and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. He earned the award as a staff sergeant and radio operator aboard a B-29 Superfortress in the Asia-Pacific theater. During a 1945 bombing mission over Koriyama, Japan, a white phosphorus bomb prematurely ignited in his aircraft and seriously wounded him. As smoke filled the plane, he picked up the burning device and carried it through the aircraft to the cockpit where he tossed it out a window. Although he suffered severe burns, he successfully saved his plane and all crew members aboard by disposing of the incendiary/smoke-generating bomb. He is the first and only Boeing B-29 Superfortress crew member to receive the Medal of Honor."
tagline: "US Army Air Forces NCO and Medal of Honor recipient"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Red_Erwin_1995.JPEG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1921-05-08"
deathDate: "2002-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.45
  momentum:             7.125463208046586
  historical:           5.11646
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D9%8A._%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "هنري إي. إرفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_E._Erwin"
    title: "Henry E. Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_E._Erwin"
    title: "Henry E. Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "הנרי ארווין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_E._Erwin"
    title: "Henry E. Erwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9287824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump