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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.
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
The black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima offered no cover, only shallow shell holes and the hulks of stalled tanks. Late on February 23, 1945, Marines of the 21st Regiment lay pinned down, staring across a short stretch of open ground that felt a mile wide. Ahead of them, a maze of reinforced concrete pillboxes spat machine-gun fire in crossing patterns, every burst chewing fresh craters into the sand.
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.
Alonzo Smith — Sergeant U.S. Army Civil War Hatcher's Run, Virginia, USA
Bernard Pious Bell — Technical Sergeant U.S. Army World War II Mittelwihr, France
Coron D. Evans — Private U.S. Army Civil War Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia, USA
Darrell Robins Lindsey — Captain U.S. Army Air Corps World War II L'Isle Adam railroad bridge over the Seine River, France
David Dixon Porter — Captain U.S. Marine Corps Philippine Insurrection Cadacan & Sohoton rivers junction, Samar, Philippine Islands
George E. McDonald — Private U.S. Army Civil War Fort Stedman, Virginia, USA
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington — Major U.S. Marine Corps Reserve World War II Central Solomons area
Harold William "Indian Joe" Bauer — Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Marine Corps World War II Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Henry Alexius Courtney Jr. — Major U.S. Marine Corps Reserve World War II Sugar Loaf Hill, Okinawa Shima, Ryukyu Islands
John Springer Walmsley Jr. — Captain U.S. Air Force Korean War near Yangdok, Korea
Moses C. Hanscom — Corporal U.S. Army Civil War Bristoe Station, Virginia, USA
Stanley Bender — Staff Sergeant U.S. Army World War II La Lande, France
Terrence Begley — Sergeant U.S. Army U.S. Civil War Cold Harbor, Virginia, USA