Oct 06 , 2025
John Basilone stood alone. Surrounded by waves of enemy infantry, with machine gun fire tearing through jungle foliage and grenades exploding at his feet, he held a single position. His M1919 Brown...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Blood soaked the frozen woods outside Argonne. The night air cracked with gunfire. Men whispered prayers as shadows moved like ghosts toward them. Sgt. Henry Johnson stood alone, a rifle and a knif...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old the day he leapt into hell to save his brothers. The battlefield was a trench in Iwo Jima, February 1945. Mortar fire hammered the ridges. Amid the scream...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just 17 when he became more than a name in history. He was the boy who emptied his pockets of grenades, ran headfirst into hell, and shielded his brothers with nothing but ...
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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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