Nov 07 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was a boy in a man’s crucible. At seventeen, when grenades rained down on his Marine company at Iwo Jima, he didn't hesitate. Two enemy explosives landed among the men. Without...
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Nov 07 , 2025
The enemy pressed in from all sides, bullets ripping past like angry hornets. Lieutenant Edward R. Schowalter Jr. — bleeding, nearly crippled — refused to fall back. His men depended on him. He mov...
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Nov 07 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stood on the deck of USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) as hell came screaming out of the Pacific dawn. The air burned with fire and the clatter of Japanese warships closing in—an armad...
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Nov 07 , 2025
Desmond Thomas Doss stood alone on that jagged ridge in Okinawa, the air thick with smoke and death. Bullets tore past his head. Every man around him was wounded or dead. And still, he refused to c...
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Nov 07 , 2025
A single rifle shot cuts through the chaos. The air, thick with gunpowder and sweat, holds its breath. Sgt. Alvin C. York stands still, sights locked on a fate sealed by his own hands. With every p...
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Nov 07 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans stood on the deck of USS Samuel B. Roberts, his ship bruised, battered, and bleeding oil under a blood-red sky. Around him, the shouts and thunder of naval war framed a desperate la...
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