Orville Emil Bloch
Orville Emil Bloch — First Lieutenant U.S. Army World War II near Firenzuola, Italy
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Orville Emil Bloch — First Lieutenant U.S. Army World War II near Firenzuola, Italy
Ova Art Kelley — Private U.S. Army World War II Leyte, Philippine Islands
Ralph Cheli — Major U.S. Army Air Corps World War II near Wewak, New Guinea
Robert H. Dietz — Staff Sergeant U.S. Army World War II Kirchain, Germany
Ronald Eugene Rosser — Corporal U.S. Army Korean War near Ponggilli, Korea
Seymour W Terry — First Lieutenant U.S. Army World War II Zebra Hill, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands
Tony K. Burris — Sergeant First Class U.S. Army Korean War Mundung-ni, Korea
Trustrim Connell — Corporal U.S. Army Civil War Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia
William H Thomas — Private First Class U.S. Army World War II Zambales Mountains, Luzon, Philippine Islands
William Hart Pitsenbarger — Airman First Class U.S. Air Force Vietnam War near Cam My, Republic of Vietnam
William Henry Barnes — Private U.S. Army U.S. Civil War Chapin's Farm, Virginia, USA
A story of a risky harbor landing, brutal tides, and how it broke a grinding stalemate in Korea.
In the dark, humid hours before dawn on Okinawa, the American line around Kakazu Ridge was little more than a jagged string of foxholes and shattered stone. Technical Sergeant Beauford “Andy” Anderson and the men of his weapons platoon had spent the night listening to the island—distant artillery rumbled, mortars coughed, and now and then a Japanese flare turned the terraced fields silver for a heartbeat before dropp
A story of a shrinking beachhead, exhausted troops, and how their stand kept South Korea from collapsing in 1950.
The hill had a simple name on the map—Zebra Hill—but nothing about it was simple up close. Ahead of the assault troops the ground rose in a broken, rocky slope, pocked with shell holes and scraps of shattered brush. Hidden in that terrain were Japanese pillboxes and trenches positioned to command every approach. As the American infantrymen pushed forward, the hillside erupted with machine-gun bursts and grenades, tur
Warrior and Black Prince were the Royal Navy first large iron-hulled armoured warships, combining steam, sail, a heavy broadside battery, and an armoured central section at the start of a rapid naval revolution.
How a 22-year-old automatic rifleman kept firing after losing both legs, and saved his platoon in the Philippine mountains of 1945.
George Taro "Joe" Sakato — Private U.S. Army World War II Hill 617 near Biffontaine, France