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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Oct 06 , 2025
John Basilone stood alone, heart pounding like war drums, his twin .30 caliber machine guns spewing fire into a tide of enemies that refused to break. The jungle air thick with smoke, blood, and sw...
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Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old. Barely fifteen—half a childhood carved away by war. The deafening surge of artillery thundered around his screaming ears on Iwo Jima’s volcanic slopes. T...
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