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The winter sky over the Anzio beachhead was a low, gray lid, pressing the sound of guns back down onto the men below. Along a shallow drainage ditch called the Fossa Femminamorta, muddy water slid past tufts of grass and shattered reeds. Somewhere ahead, beyond the next bend, German machine guns covered the open fields that stretched away from the ditch, anchoring a strongpoint that threatened the entire attack.
A story of agility, survivability, and reach told through the pilots and maintainers who turned a lightweight fighter into a global workhorse.
Night on Iwo Jima never really felt dark. The sky glowed faintly from flares and burning wreckage, and the volcanic ash underfoot seemed to swallow every step. In a shallow foxhole—a rough, shoulder-deep fighting position scraped into that ash—Private George Phillips stood watch while the rest of his squad finally slept. They had spent the night trading grenades and rifle fire with Japanese troops slipping through th
The fuel gauges in Harold Bauer’s Wildcat fighter were already edging toward empty when the coastline of Guadalcanal slid beneath his wings. He had just finished leading a long, tense, overwater flight of Marine fighters up from Espiritu Santo, six hundred miles of nothing but ocean and cloud. Henderson Field, the hard-bitten airstrip the Marines called home, lay ahead as a thin strip of coral and mud, promising rest
A Medal of Honor story of one-man courage under fire in the Philippines campaign of World War II.
Medal of Honor, U.S. Army, World War II
The October 1944 landings restored a major Allied foothold in the Philippines. Fleet battles protected that foothold, but Japanese reinforcement and the struggle for routes toward Ormoc made the ground campaign longer and more difficult than the beach assault alone suggests.
A story of a rushed island invasion, scrambled coordination, and the troops who made it work anyway.
That same global war produced a very different sort of turning point when Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered in Tehran, Iran, for their first full wartime summit.
How a 23-year-old pilot kept a burning Flying Fortress in the air long enough to save his crew over Nazi-occupied Europe.
Harold Bascom Durham Jr. — Second Lieutenant U.S. Army Vietnam War Republic of Vietnam
Harold William "Indian Joe" Bauer — Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Marine Corps World War II Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Henry M Hardenbergh — Private U.S. Army U.S. Civil War Deep Run, Virginia, USA
James K Okubo — Technician Fifth Grade U.S. Army World War II Foret Domaniale de Champ, near Biffontaine, France
Jerry Kirt Crump — Corporal U.S. Army Korean War Chorwon, Korea
John M. Kindig — Corporal U.S. Army Civil War Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA
Marshall Sherman — Private U.S. Army Civil War Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Robert Edward Cox — Chief Gunner U.S. Navy Interim 1899 - 1910 off Pensacola, Florida, USA