Alvin York, John Basilone, Mitchel Paige, Audie Murphy, Richard Bong, Bruce Crandall...
Enola Gay was commanded by Paul Tibbets. He named the aircraft after his wife.
No idea, but then, I've never really done any reading on that particular op.
Fixed. However, I believe that in the Alliance's case, they would want to advertise Luke's participation in their rebellion as intensely as possible.
Dramatizing real or invented atrocities by an opposing government for the purposes of propaganda is also very common.
Anakin
was inarguably famous, however. There are literal years worth of Republic propaganda transmissions on the galactic HoloNet playing up his public persona as the Jedi "Hero With No Fear."
I think they would consider the trade-off to be more than favorable to them. As a rebel, Luke would be a target regardless, so they might as well benefit from publicizing his exploits as loudly as possible.
Again, the vast majority of the rest of the Galaxy would have living memory of years of pro-Jedi Republic propaganda from the Clone Wars. Don't put too much stock in the opinions of a New Order fanatic and a cynical smuggler as being representative of the Galactic "Joe Public."
That's one kind of person. Luke is another very attractive candidate for propagandization, bearing in mind both his "working-class hero" cred and his status as the son of a famous war-hero.
