Nov 04 , 2025
Explosions shredded the dawn mist. USS Johnston’s decks were slick with rain and blood—her captain, Ernest E. Evans, leaned into the chaos, eyes burning ice. Enemy cruisers and battleships bore dow...
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Nov 04 , 2025
John Basilone stood alone in the dark. Bullets shredded the humid air, the jungle alive with enemy fire. His machine gun spat death fast and furious, but waves of Japanese soldiers kept coming. No ...
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Nov 03 , 2025
Charles N. DeGlopper stood alone on a sliver of bridge over the Merderet River, soaked in mud and blood, facing a storm of enemy fire. His comrades were falling back, chaos bleeding into defeat. No...
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Nov 03 , 2025
A boy throws himself on not one, but two grenades. Blood soaks the ground. Flesh burns. Bones break. But he lives. Barely. Jacklyn Harold Lucas was seventeen on November 20, 1942 — a child soldie...
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Nov 03 , 2025
Audie Leon Murphy stood alone on a scarred ridge near Holtzwihr, France. The enemy was closing in—a platoon of seasoned German soldiers, relentless and well-armed. His unit was cut down, exhausted,...
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Nov 03 , 2025
James E. Robinson Jr. crawled through mud thick as grief, surrounded by the deafening crack of gunfire ripping the earth around him. Off to his left, men dropped without a sound, swallowed by the c...
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