High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raymond Larry Knight (June 15, 1922 ? April 25, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration?the Medal of Honor?for his actions in World War II. Knight joined the Army from Houston, Texas, and by April 24, 1945 was a first lieutenant piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. On that day and the following day, in the northern Po Valley, Italy, he repeatedly volunteered to lead attacks on enemy air bases and exposed his aircraft to intense hostile fire in low-altitude reconnaissance and strafing missions. During a mission on April 25, his airplane was badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire.