How James E. Robinson Jr. Earned the Medal of Honor in 1944
James E. Robinson Jr. knew what it meant to bleed for every inch of ground. Shells screamed overh...
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...
Charles N. DeGlopper stood alone against a flood of enemy fire. Bullets sliced the air, screams e...
Desmond Doss lay on the blood-soaked ridge, the gunfire relentless, death closing in like a storm...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 14 when the war called — too young to enlist, but old enough to know wha...
Audie Leon Murphy IV stood alone against the storm of German soldiers, his rifle empty, his back ...
Blood soaking the mud. The night swallowed the screams, but Sgt. Henry Johnson did not falter. Al...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was thirteen years old the day he threw himself on not one, but two grenades...
Edward Schowalter Jr. was bleeding out in the mud, knee shattered by shrapnel, but his voice stil...
The sea churned with fire and steel. Shells ripped the sky above Samar Island on October 25, 1944...
Desmond Thomas Doss lay pinned beneath a hailstorm of enemy fire. The ridge above Okinawa burned ...
Sergeant Alvin C. York moved through the mud like a ghost fueled by grit and steel. Bullets screa...
Ernest E. Evans stood his ground at dawn, battered ship thrumming beneath his feet, smoke choking...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was a boy barely old enough to shave, yet the battlefield crowned him a man ...
John Basilone stood his ground with a .30-caliber machine gun, alone against a tide of enemy sold...
He was just a kid, barely old enough to vote or drink. But on Iwo Jima’s unforgiving ash and bloo...
He stood alone against the chaos, fists clenched, a one-man wall in the bitter night. Bullets his...
James E. Robinson Jr. stared down the barrel of death in a sun-scorched Italian hillside. Bullets...
Charles DeGlopper stood alone against a hailstorm of bullets. His squad was falling back, every s...
Basilone stood alone, a one-man fortress against a roaring tide of enemy fire. The night air crac...
Bloodied hands gripping cold iron, a single cannon roars defiance as the blue lines break and fal...
The flag fell once. He caught it. Bloodied hands clutching silk, he refused to let it touch the g...
The roar of gunfire drowned out everything but the pounding of his own heart. Bullets zipped past...
The room exploded in chaos. Bullets shredded concrete; screams pierced the dust. Then—the sudden ...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was seventeen when he laid down his young body on a bed of grenades. Smo...
The mountain loomed like hell itself, alive with gunfire and screams. Amid that chaos, one man mo...
The air thick with smoke. Gunfire rattling the morning like thunder. Men falling—one after anothe...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was thirteen years old when he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. Thirte...
Blood, sweat, and sheer guts. That’s the forge Sgt. Maj. Daniel Joseph Daly came from. He didn’t ...
Charles DeGlopper’s rifle roared into the chaos like a prayer shot through hellfire. Alone, pinne...
Gunfire cracked the dawn. Charles DeGlopper was alone in a hailstorm of lead, standing on a ridge...
The roar of gunfire drowned out every thought. But Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph Daly clipped thro...
The flash of two grenades. They land among the chaos of Marines huddled in earth and blood. Jackl...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was fifteen years old when the war’s smoke swallowed his youth whole. A ...
Robert Jenkins’ last breath was a shield—not of metal or steel, but of flesh and heart. A grenade...
Ross Andrew McGinnis felt the weight of that grenade before the world shifted. The split second b...
Charles DeGlopper stood alone. Bullets tore past him like angry hornets. Behind, the line of his ...
The roar of gunfire split the air like thunder. Outnumbered, outgunned, but not outmatched—Sgt. M...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just 14 when war ripped through his youth—a boy more soldier than man be...
The roar of gunfire shadows every breath. The street’s chaos narrows to a bloody ritual, man agai...
Smoke choked the narrow street. Guns spat fire, bullets slicing through shadows. Amid the chaos, ...