Oct 06 , 2025
Charles N. DeGlopper stood his ground as death screamed in from every side. The air thick with smoke and the roar of enemy guns, he fired volley after volley—alone—so his brothers could slip away. ...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Fire rained down. A grenade rolled inches from a dozen huddled men. Gordon Yntema didn’t hesitate. He bore down, a human shield, bearing the blast so others could live. In that split second, he cho...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn H. Lucas was barely seventeen when hell painted his world in blood and fire. His body—scarred, battered—became a shield for brothers he barely knew. Two grenades buried in sand, seconds fro...
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Oct 06 , 2025
He was fifteen when hell rained down on Tarawa. Too young to enlist, but that did not stop Jacklyn Harold Lucas. When the first grenade clattered into the foxhole, the boy did what no man could ask...
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Oct 06 , 2025
He was just seventeen when the bombs rained down on Iwo Jima. The air thick with death, Marines falling all around him, Jacklyn H. Lucas didn’t pause. Two grenades, thrown by a nearby enemy, landed...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old, barely a man but already hardened beyond his years. The island was soaked in fire and fear, and he stood trembling but unyielding in the chaos of Iwo Jim...
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