Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class William D. Halyburton Jr. at Okinawa
Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class William D. Halyburton Jr. at Okinawa. Beyond the Call — open the episode listing and listening link.
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Private First Class Albert Ernest Schwab at Okinawa Shima, 1945
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
Private First Class Clarence Byrle Craft at Hen Hill, Okinawa, 1945
Private First Class Clarence Byrle Craft at Hen Hill, Okinawa, 1945. Beyond the Call — open the episode listing and listening link.
Private First Class Dirk John Cornelius Vlug at Limon, Leyte, 1944
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
Private First Class Leonard C. Brostrom: The Scout Who Wouldn’t Stop
Medal of Honor, U.S. Army, World War II
Private First Class Lloyd C. Hawks at Carano, Italy, 1944
Private First Class Lloyd C. Hawks at Carano, Italy, 1944. Beyond the Call — open the episode listing and listening link.
Private First Class Thomas Eugene “Gene” Atkins at the Villa Verde Trail, Luzon, 1945
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and stubborn defense in the Pacific war.
Albert E. Schwab
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
Albert Ernest Schwab
The valley offered almost no cover. Shallow folds of earth and shattered shrubs were all that shielded the Marines of 1st Battalion, 5th Marines as they tried to push forward on Okinawa Shima on May 7, 1945. Ahead of them, on a high ridge at the valley’s mouth, a Japanese machine gun hammered the slopes, stitching bullets across every patch of ground where a helmet or sleeve dared to move. The air vibrated with the c
Anton L. Krotiak
The air over Balete Pass crackled with small-arms fire and the flat explosions of grenades. On the steep slope of Hill B, a narrow finger of ground jutting out above the zigzag road that threaded the Caraballo Mountains, five exhausted American infantrymen hugged the earth around a captured Japanese trench. It was 8 May 1945, deep in the Battle of Luzon, and Private First Class Anton L.
Dirk J. Vlug
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Pacific war.
Dirk John Cornelius Vlug
The jungle pressed in on both sides of the Ormoc Road, a narrow ribbon of mud and broken pavement cutting through the hills near Limon on the island of Leyte. December rain had turned the ditches into brown pools. American infantrymen crouched behind a hasty roadblock of felled trees, sandbags, and wrecked vehicles, listening to the grinding approach of steel.
George Benjamin Jr.
The rain-soaked hills of Leyte were already torn open by days of fighting when Company A of the 306th Infantry pushed forward against a Japanese strongpoint that refused to break. Machine guns were dug into the slopes, firing down narrow approaches that funneled every American movement into sheets of bullets. A light tank inched ahead, meant to crack the defenses, but the infantry platoon walking behind it stalled un
Harold Gonsalves
A Medal of Honor story of selfless sacrifice and battlefield leadership in World War II.
HMS Warrior
HMS Warrior was the Royal Navy first iron-hulled armoured warship. Her long life moved from Channel Fleet showpiece to reserve and support duties, then from oil jetty to major museum restoration.
Johnnie D. Hutchins
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire and quiet sacrifice in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
Leonard C. Brostrom
Medal of Honor, U.S. Army, World War II
Melvin E. Biddle
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.