Nov 04 , 2025
Fire lit the sky like judgment. The USS Samuel B. Roberts was a David against a Goliath force—carrier planes, battleships, cruisers closing in. Commanding Officer Ernest E. Evans stood on the blazi...
(0) Comments
Nov 04 , 2025
Blood on the sand and bone in the mud—this was the crucible that forged Daniel James Daly. A hand grenade lands yards away on a ragtag knot of Marines and allies in China. The bomb's hiss is a prom...
(0) Comments
Nov 04 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas bore scars no child should carry. Barely seventeen, boots still too big for his feet, he crawled into the nightmare of Iwo Jima’s volcanic ash. The ground beneath him burned wi...
(0) Comments
Nov 04 , 2025
Blood seeps through frozen fingers. The roar of cannon fire drowns the screams. Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing grips his saber, then shoves it aside. His hands find the wheel of a single, battered canno...
(0) Comments
Nov 04 , 2025
They came at night. Shadows swallowed the trench. The thunder didn’t break. But Sgt. Henry Johnson—alone, wounded, outnumbered—rose like iron against a storm of Germans. He fought with everything l...
(0) Comments
Nov 04 , 2025
Charles DeGlopper stood alone in the open, battered by a storm of bullets. His rifle cracked loud and fierce, a desperate beacon to hold off the flood of German soldiers bearing down on his brother...
(0) Comments