Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Medal of Honor Recipient at Peleliu
Blood spilled in youth’s name. A boy barely 17, lungs choking under the roar of gunfire, standing...
Blood spilled in youth’s name. A boy barely 17, lungs choking under the roar of gunfire, standing...
Blood pumping. Smoke choking the air. Cannon roaring beneath my hands—one shot, two, a third—whil...
Bloodied hands held the line. Darkness swallowed the field near the French village of Bruyères, S...
Smoke rises. Bullets sing through the cold dawn air. Men fall, scrambling—facing an enemy surge t...
Desmond Doss stood alone on the ridge, blood streaming down his legs, faces of seventy-five men b...
The blast ripped through the air. Two grenades landed among the Marines, ready to tear men apart....
He was just a kid from Texas, barely old enough to drink, staring down an entire company of Germa...
Sgt. Henry Johnson stood alone in a maelstrom of death, shotgun blazing into the shadowed night. ...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just 17 when a grenade’s death whispered in his face. He didn’t flinch. ...
Edward Schowalter Jr. stood alone at the ridge’s edge, blood seeping through shredded clothing. E...
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of USS Samuel B. Roberts, eyes burning through the haze of sm...
Desmond Thomas Doss knelt between shattered rocks and screaming men. Bullets traced death around ...
The thunder of rifle fire shattered the quiet dawn. Smoke hung thick, choking the air. There, alo...
The sea churned blood-red as the guns roared—hopes pinned on a lone destroyer, peeling off a suic...
A boy no older than most kids’ first taste of danger stood above two live grenades. No hesitation...
Fire was ripping through the underbrush. Guns screamed. A hell of a night where death came in wav...
Blood and thunder broke over the streets of Tientsin, China. Smoke clawed the sky, gunfire cracke...
James E. Robinson Jr. stood with his squad pinned down, enemy fire ripping air and earth around t...
John Basilone stood alone on that hell-bent ridge under a storm of bullets. The enemy wave surged...
Blood pumps. The night air tastes like fear and gunpowder. A crack echoes. Edward R. Schowalter J...
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of USS Samuel B. Roberts as hell swallowed the horizon. The s...
Blood slick and lungs burning, a handful of Marines stood their ground against a wall of chaos. B...
No twelve-year-old should ever see the face of death. But Jacklyn Harold Lucas did. Twice. And he...
Explosions shook the hill, artillery shells tearing the sky open. Blood stained Alonzo Cushing’s ...
Steel met flesh beneath a screaming moon. Bullets tore through the night air, but Sgt. Henry John...
He stood alone on a ridge nicknamed “The Bloody Gulch,” bullets stitching the air around him like...
Blood and quiet. The hill bled men like a meat grinder. Shells clawed earth and bone, death hover...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just sixteen when hell found him. A kid with a Marine’s heart. Throwing ...
Audie Leon Murphy IV stood alone on that shattered hill—outgunned, outnumbered, every breath soak...
Blood and mud, hand gripping rifle, face burning with pain and fear—yet still firing. That’s Henr...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely a man—or a Marine—when he leapt into hell. At seventeen, with a c...
Edward R. Schowalter Jr. stood alone, the night carved into pieces around him. His unit shattered...
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of USS Johnston, eyes locked on the horizon where death await...
Desmond Thomas Doss stood alone amid the chaos of Okinawa’s Maeda Escarpment, dragging wounded me...
The thunder cracks overhead. Artillery shells scream, tearing earth and nerves alike. Amid the mu...
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of the USS Samuel B. Roberts—a tiny destroyer escort—watching...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old when he threw himself onto two live grenades to save h...
John Basilone stood amid the relentless fury of Guadalcanal’s jungle, a hailstorm of enemy bullet...
Alonzo Cushing’s final stand was the sound of thunder against a fury no man could shut down—not e...
A man stands alone in the mud, bullets tearing the night apart. His hands, raw and bleeding, grip...
He charged forward alone, a single figure blazing through a hailstorm of bullets. No hesitation. ...
He carried no rifle. No pistol. Only a stretcher and a heart pounding with conviction in the deaf...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was seventeen when he crawled straight into Hell and back—a kid with two gre...
He was a boy with no time left to become a man—thrust into hell before the world knew his name. A...
Sgt. Henry Johnson fought through hell itself on a cold night in the Argonne Forest. Bullets tore...
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely a man when he stood in the inferno of Iwo Jima. Sixteen years old...
Edward Schowalter Jr. stood where others fell. His blood stained a frozen ridge in Korea, but he ...
Ernest Evans stood on the bridge of USS Samuel B. Roberts, heart pounding, eyes sharp, as the thu...
Desmond Thomas Doss stood alone on the jagged ridgeline of Hacksaw Ridge. Bullets zipped past lik...
The roar of machine guns tore the air apart. Smoke choked the trenches. Amid the chaos, one man m...