Oct 06 , 2025
John Basilone stood alone, his .30-caliber machine gun blazing into a tidal wave of Japanese soldiers. The air was thick with smoke, sweat, and the stench of death. Around him, Marines fell by the ...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Gunfire splitting the jungle air, tracer rounds screaming past his face. John Basilone stood alone at the Sergei Ridge, the night breathing hot and close around him. The enemy pressed hard—waves of...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Audie Leon Murphy sat alone on a shattered ridge, surrounded by death. German soldiers crawled closer, their numbers overwhelming. With a burning .50 caliber machine gun at his hip, he fought witho...
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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 05 , 2025
Jacklyn H. Lucas was just 17 years old when he chose to stand between death and his brothers-in-arms. Two grenades, live and deadly, tossed into a foxhole packed with Marines. Without hesitation, h...
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Oct 05 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just seventeen when hell broke loose around him. Two grenades rolled onto a foxhole where he’d just scrambled into cover — cold metal tumbling closer, death whispering his ...
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