Mar 08 , 2026
The thunder cracked over Iwo Jima’s shattered sands. Twenty-one grenades tore through sky and earth. Then, a boy—no older than most high school seniors—leapt into the shadow of death without hesita...
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Mar 08 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen when hell found him. Barely a man. Barely a Marine. The Battle That Defined Him November 20, 1942. The sands of Tarawa burned beneath a merciless sun. The Japanese...
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Mar 07 , 2026
Two grenades landed at his feet. No time. No hesitation. Jacklyn Harold Lucas, a 17-year-old kid barely out of high school, dove on those hissing eggs of death. He pulled their deadly weight agains...
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Mar 04 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was thirteen years old the first time he dragged himself out of a burning ship and into the hellfire of combat. A child pressed into a war grown men barely survived. But on Iwo...
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Mar 04 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen when combat tried to kill him. The battlefield spat grenades and fire, but this kid—barely a man—dove on two of them and swallowed their fury with his own flesh. Hi...
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Mar 01 , 2026
Ernest E. Evans stood on the bridge of USS Johnston, his gaze fixed on the morning horizon. Enemy cruisers and battleships loomed—a tidal wave of firepower set to crush his force. Outnumbered, outg...
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