Daniel J. Daly Marine Twice Awarded the Medal of Honor
Blood on the wire. Smoke choking the sky. Sgt. Major Daniel J. Daly stood unyielding—alone, outnu...
Blood on the wire. Smoke choking the sky. Sgt. Major Daniel J. Daly stood unyielding—alone, outnu...
The blast came without warning. A grenade—hot, alive, desperate—landed between four soldiers hudd...
Ross McGinnis pressed his back against the cold steel of the Humvee. Dust swirled thick around th...
John Chapman’s last stand was carved in darkness—icy wind biting, the Afghan mountains closing in...
Mud, blood, and whispers of death wrapped the rolling fields of the Argonne. Alvin C. York stood ...
Hearts beat wild. Bullets buzzed like angry hornets. A dozen lives balanced on the edge of death....
Ross Andrew McGinnis died like a warrior—without hesitation, without regret. One second from safe...
Flames licking his uniform. Grenades scattered like devil’s laughter around him. They called out ...
The world burns and howls around you. Bullets slam into the dirt, churning dust into choking clou...
Ross A. McGinnis didn’t hesitate. He dove into a thunderclap of metal and fire — a grenade rollin...
Ross McGinnis felt the grenade before anyone else. Four men in that armored humvee. Chaos caving ...
Ross McGinnis’s last act was a gospel written in mud and fire. Enemy rounds whistled through the ...
He stood alone, rifle blazing, as waves of Boxer rebels closed in near Tientsin. The Marine’s voi...
Sgt. Maj. Daniel Joseph Daly stood alone between death and chaos, bullets tearing the air around ...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just 17 when chaos erupted around him on Iwo Jima. Grenades rained death...
Bullets tore through the humid night air. The machine guns spat death in unrelenting waves, but J...
He crouched low beneath the rain of bullets, every inch of earth soaked with sweat and gunpowder....
Flames lit the ridge. Bullets tore through the air like angry hawks. Behind him, the 82nd Airborn...
William McKinley Lowery didn’t stop moving. Bullets tore the dirt around him, shrieks of war claw...
William McKinley Lowery stood firm amid a hurricane of gunfire, blood seeping through torn flesh,...
William McKinley stood firm beneath a withering hail of bullets, the Sangamon River choking the h...
The air lay thick with smoke. Bullets tore through the brush. Men screamed. Amid the fray, Willia...
Blood slick on the ridge, screams swallowed by war’s thunder. Desmond Thomas Doss moved through h...
Charles N. DeGlopper stood alone on that ruined ridge. Bullets tore the air, each crack a sentenc...
The air shattered with gunfire. Smoke clawed at the sky. One man stood shoulder-deep in chaos—unf...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen years old when he grabbed two live grenades, pressed them to his...
The crack of gunfire shattered dawn at Tientsin. Smoke hugged the trenches like death’s own shado...
John Chapman fell on a mountain under Afghan skies, alone, surrounded by enemy. The battle raged ...
Blood soaked the rugged Afghan soil. Silence was thick—until John Chapman charged through it like...
John Chapman’s last stand was not just about battle. It was a fight to save brothers, a clash whe...
John A. Chapman’s lungs burned, his muscles screaming beneath the Afghan sky. Bullets shredded th...
The grenade landed between them—a brutal heartbeat in the jungle’s chaos. Robert Jenkins saw the ...
The grenade shattered the quiet, a heartbeat away from death. Robert H. Jenkins Jr., without hesi...
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. didn’t hesitate. A live grenade rolled into the cramped perimeter, spinning...
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. never planned to be a hero. But when the green fog of Vietnam stretched thi...
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. didn’t hesitate. The flash of the grenade was a heartbeat’s warning. His bo...
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. felt the grenade before it screamed. The metallic clink, the sudden panic i...
The blood was seeping into the sand. Grenades landing like thundercracks around a handful of Mari...
Thomas W. Norris stood on the scorched earth of Chau Phu, his body a shield against incoming bull...
Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph Daly stood under relentless fire, the world burning around him, lips...
Bullets ripped through the humid jungle air. Men screamed, shouted, and fell. Amid the chaos, one...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just seventeen. Barely a man. Yet out of the fire and fury of Iwo Jima, ...
Smack of lead on leather. Smoke thick as an enemy’s breath. In the chaos, a man stands fast, shou...
Bullets tore the morning air. Men fell like harvest wheat, swallowed by mud and flame. Yet, from ...
John Basilone stood alone on a ridge under a hellish rain of bullets and grenades at Guadalcanal....
Edward R. Schowalter Jr. stood on a Korean ridge, blood streaming from shattered ribs and a broke...
Ernest E. Evans stood alone on the bridge of USS Johnston, his ship a single thorn stabbing into ...
Blood on the Grass. Fire in the Soul. Sgt. Maj. Daniel J. Daly stood alone against a wall of char...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen when the war called. A boy with a man’s heart, he carried the we...
Alonzo Cushing gripped the wheel of his cannon, blood dripping down his arm. Around him, screams ...