Category: War Stories

He was 78 when British troops shot him in the face, bayonetted him six times, and clubbed him. They thought he was dead. They were wrong.

The North Vietnamese just didn’t count on a 21-year-old from the Dakotas being there. They should have.

The President has had 158 days to get it done… and we are still waiting for Alwyn Cashe to get his due recognition and receive the Medal of Honor.

Instrumental in the quick recovery of both pilots were the updated procedures put in place after the Gulf War in 1990-1991.

Norman J. “Dusty” Kleiss was a Battle of Midway hero whose mastery wrought tremendous damage to the Japanese.

Unlike many of the paratroopers who went through their baptism of fire on D-Day, Charles DeGlopper was already an experienced fighter.

When the Axis attacked the town of Sommocolonia in 1944, they thought they made quite a breakthrough. But they didn’t reckon on Lieutenant John R. Fox.

Their heroic actions in the Battle of Belleau Wood laid the foundation for the Marines to be known as one of the most feared fighting forces on the planet.

Loose lips sink ships and a horde of international journalists was about to find that out the hard way in Somalia. Enter the Navy SEALs.

In an extraordinary feat of bravery and faith Desmond Doss saved 75 of his fellow soldiers attending to each one individually.

In November 1950 Ralph Puckett and his 50 Rangers repeatedly held off a Chinese battalion. Puckett’s actions that day made him a legend.

It is high time that Alwyn Cashe receives the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in 2005 in Iraq. President Biden should act on it immediately.