Jacklyn Lucas's sacrifice at Iwo Jima that won the Medal of Honor
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 17 when hell came calling at Iwo Jima. Barely grown, barely blooded. The...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 17 when hell came calling at Iwo Jima. Barely grown, barely blooded. The...
The night air was thick with gunfire and smoke. Men screamed and fell, one after another, but the...
John A. Chapman’s last stand was a gut-punch to the heart of war. Alone, pinned down by suicidall...
He fell into a hailstorm of bullets, alone, outnumbered, yet relentless—John A. Chapman didn’t qu...
He didn’t wait to be ordered. John Chapman surged forward into a hailstorm of bullets—alone, agai...
John Chapman’s last stand was carved into the jagged ice and dust of Takur Ghar Mountain. Enemy f...
Robert Howard Jenkins Jr. stood in the maw of death without hesitation. The grenade landed among ...
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. died with a grenade in his hands. His last act was a choice etched in fire:...
The grenade landed without warning—spinning in slow, hellish arc. Robert H. Jenkins Jr. saw it cl...
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. heard it before he saw it—the faint hiss slicing the humid Vietnam air. Gre...
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. never hesitated. In a split second, a grenade fell among his squad. No hesi...
The grenade’s hiss was a death sentence. But Robert H. Jenkins Jr. answered it with his body. Th...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was not supposed to live through his first day in combat. At seventeen, bare...
Blood dripped from every corner of the LZ. The enemy was relentless, bullets carving the air like...
Blood drips from my fists. The enemy presses in, shadows swallowing daylight while bullets carve ...
James E. Robinson Jr. crawled forward through a storm of bullets and shattered earth, every breat...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen when hell reached out and bit deep — twice. Two grenades in hand...
Sgt. Major Daniel Joseph Daly stood bloodied, alone atop a bloody parapet in China, defying death...
Bullets tore through the frozen air. Men screamed. Dead bodies bloomed across the snow. And J...
John Basilone stood like a lone pillar of defiance amid a hellish firestorm on Guadalcanal. Waves...
Bloodied hands gripping a radio, screaming for fire under a rain of bullets and mortar shells. Ed...
Ernest E. Evans stood alone against a sea of steel and fire. His ship, the USS Johnston, was batt...
Blood and grit mark the man who stood unshaken when chaos swallowed the fields. Daniel J. Daly wa...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just a kid when war tore through the Pacific. He didn’t ask to be a hero...
The roar of cannons ripped through the summer air, smoke choking the fields, men screaming into t...
Night shattered by shouts and gunfire. Sergeant Henry Johnson, alone against shadows twisted by G...
Charles N. DeGlopper stood alone between death and his brothers. The roar of German guns cut acro...
He stood alone on that ridge, bullets tearing the air like hell’s own hailstorm. No gun. No shiel...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely a man when he became a shield between life and death. Barely seve...
They poured over the ridge like a flood of steel and fury. Gunfire ripped the dawn apart. Alone, ...
Blood on the wire. The night’s air sliced by rifle cracks. Alone, wounded, fighting mad against a...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 17 years old when the blast shook everything he knew. The Pacific sun wa...
He was bleeding out in a frozen ditch. Enemy shells screamed above. Men fell all around. But Lieu...
Ernest E. Evans stood alone in the eye of hell. His destroyer escort, USS Johnston, pummeled by a...
Desmond Thomas Doss stood alone on the blood-drenched ridge, refusing to fire a single shot. Gren...
Silence crawled over the Argonne Forest with the weight of death itself. Amidst the tangled roots...
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of USS Samuel B. Roberts, eyes fixed on the horizon as enemy ...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen when he kissed childhood goodbye and crawled into hell. No adult...
John Basilone stood alone, the roar of enemy fire crashing around him like a breaking storm. His ...
James E. Robinson Jr. knew what it meant to bleed for every inch of ground. Shells screamed overh...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just a boy when he stared down death and chose to take it head-on. Barel...
Blood-soaked hands don’t forget the weight of command. A handful of marines behind ragged walls, ...
James E. Robinson Jr. crawled through hell and dust on April 6, 1945. The air around him screamed...
John Basilone stood alone. Machine gun fire tore through the tropical night, bullets slashing at ...
The air hung thick with fire and desperation. Edward R. Schowalter Jr. stood alone—bloodied, brok...
Flames ripped the sky overhead. USS Samuel B. Roberts lay beneath a storm of shells, strafed by e...
Blood caked under his nails. The roar of gunfire tore through the haze. Amid the chaos, Daniel J....
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was no older than a boy playing hero. But in the inferno of Iwo Jima, he bec...
The roar of artillery filled the hellish July air. Smoke choked the hilltop. Blood slicked the gr...
Sgt. Henry Johnson stood alone in the mud and darkness. Bullets ripped through the night air, tee...