With the Enemy Approaching, He Sat Beside His Wounded Comrade, Pulled the Pin on Two Grenades & Waited
Refusing to leave his mortally wounded comrade as the enemy approached, Australian Warrant Officer Kevin Wheatley pulled the pin on two grenades and waited for…
After Being Demoted to Private Nine Separate Times, This Canadian Was Awarded the Victoria Cross
If you ask any combat infantryman, you will hear that there are men who make their life easy in garrison and men who make their…
The picture has become iconic, if you ask any Marine, the one thing they praise about this picture as much as any other is the First Sergeant’s remarkable trigger discipline
Every war has its iconic pictures that will forever resonate in the minds of the public and most certainly of the men who fought it. …
The Man in This Image: Refusing To Abandon The Wounded, Chaplain Emil Kapaun Remained Behind to Care for His Men & Died in a Korean POW Camp
He didn’t carry a weapon, he wasn’t there to fight, but that didn’t stop chaplain Emil Kapaun from earning the nation’s highest military honor for…
Surrounded & Isolated John Fox Called Artillery on His Own Position & Killed Over 100 Germans
Often in war, gallant men will embrace what seems like certain death to accomplish the mission. Perhaps in the back of their minds, there is…
MoH Ace: It was common for pilots to celebrate aerial victories over the airfield with a barrel roll – he did 7
Over the course of a long war, there were many American flying Aces. A large number of them reached into double-digit numbers of kills. However,…
MoH: This wounded man leaped off his stretcher & started taking out North Korean fighters with his entrenching tool
It has often been said that you can’t keep a good man down. In the case of Benjamin F. Wilson, the medical personnel trying to…
Holding a .30 cal, despite the burns & his bleeding wound, he continued to fire until defensive positions were established
When one posthumously receives the Medal of Honor, it is assumed that they died in combat performing the gallant action that warranted the nation’s highest…
Missing Both Legs, This RAF Fighter Ace Took Out 22 Germans Planes, Then Escaped Multiple POW Camps
Life with amputated legs can prove difficult for even the most mundane of tasks require extra effort. But trying taking on the German Luftwaffe and…
The Dog That Went on Missions To Bomb Germany & Was Awarded the Dicken Medal
In the great tragedy of war, one often needs to find something on which to hold in the darkest moments. For a Czech Pilot at…
First African-American To Recieve The Medal Of Honor Did So With The 54th Massachusetts At Fort Wagner
Once Hollywood got a hold of war it is often impossible for the average person to separate fact from fiction. And yet, if we look…
The Only Enlisted Submariner Ever To Be Awarded The Medal Of Honor Locked Himself Inside A Sinking Submarine
For those who sail beneath the surface of the sea, there are few greater fears than permanently descending to the depths alive. The movies would…