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He Charged the Machine Guns Not Knowing His Brother Already Lay Dead on the Beach ▸ Film He Charged the Machine Guns Not Knowing His Brother Already Lay Dead on the Beach The Christmas Truce ▸ Film The Christmas Truce On Christmas 1914, Enemies Climbed Out of the Trenches — to Sing Together Teddy Roosevelt Jr. ▸ Film Teddy Roosevelt Jr. 56 and Walking With a Cane, Begged to Land in the First Wave of D-Day Franz Stigler ▸ Film Franz Stigler A German Ace Had the Kill — Instead He Flew Wing-to-Wing and Escorted the Enemy Home 76 Men Vanished Under the Nazis in One Night — The True Story of the Great Escape ▸ Film 76 Men Vanished Under the Nazis in One Night — The True Story of the Great Escape Chew-Een Lee ▸ Film Chew-Een Lee They Said a Chinese Man Couldn't Lead Marines — He Shouted in Mandarin to Hunt Them The Real ‘Dirty Dozen’: They Shaved Mohawks and Jumped Into D-Day to Blow the Bridges ▸ Film The Real ‘Dirty Dozen’: They Shaved Mohawks and Jumped Into D-Day to Blow the Bridges Joe Foss ▸ Film Joe Foss The Marines Said He Was Too Old to Fly Fighters — He Became Their Deadliest Ace Pointe du Hoc ▸ Film Pointe du Hoc They Scaled a 100-Foot Cliff Under Fire to Destroy 6 Guns — The Guns Weren't There Georg Elser ▸ Film Georg Elser One Carpenter Built a Bomb by Hand and Came 13 Minutes From Killing Hitler The Great Raid ▸ Film The Great Raid 500 Death March Survivors Were About to Be Executed — Then the Rangers Came Scooter Burke ▸ Film Scooter Burke He Had a Ticket Home. He Tore It Up, Went Back, and Killed 100 Alone Cleto Rodriguez ▸ Film Cleto Rodriguez Two Riflemen Charged a Japanese Fortress Alone and Killed 82 in 2 Hours Painting of Coast Guard landing craft evacuating Marines under fire near Point Cruz, Guadalcanal File 042Article Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands · 1939–1942 “Did They Get Off?” Douglas Munro joined the Coast Guard because its job was saving lives. On Guadalcanal in September 1942 he steered his landing craft between hundreds of trapped Marines and the Japanese guns so the others could load. Shot as the last boats pulled away, he asked one question before he died. He is the only Coast Guardsman ever awarded the Medal of Honor. Finnish officers including Lauri Törni conferring before a counter-attack, 27 July 1944 File 041Article Karelia; later Vietnam · 1939–1965 The Soldier of Three Flags Lauri Törni fought the Soviet Union for Finland in two wars and won the Mannerheim Cross, then trained with the Waffen-SS and was jailed at home for treason. He escaped to America, joined the Army as Larry Thorne, and became a legend in the Green Berets. He vanished in a helicopter over Vietnam in 1965. His remains came home thirty-four years later. Spitfires of No. 249 Squadron RAF at readiness at Ta Kali, Malta, 1942 File 040Article Malta · 1942 Screwball: The Falcon of Malta Rejected by the Royal Canadian Air Force for lack of schooling, George “Buzz” Beurling crossed the Atlantic on a convoy to join the RAF. Over besieged Malta in the summer of 1942 he became the deadliest Allied fighter pilot of the campaign. He could not fit into the war’s end, or the peace. Private First Class Jacklyn H. Lucas, U.S. Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient File 039Article Iwo Jima · 1942–1945 Two Grenades in a Trench Jack Lucas lied his way into the Marine Corps at fourteen, stowed away on a troopship to reach the fighting, and turned seventeen at sea on the way to Iwo Jima. On his second day ashore he threw himself on two Japanese grenades to save his friends. He became the youngest Marine ever awarded the Medal of Honor. Eleanor Butler Roosevelt receives the Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to her husband, 1944 File 038Article Utah Beach, Normandy · 1917–1944 “We’ll Start the War from Right Here” At fifty-six, with a bad heart and arthritis that made him walk with a cane, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the eldest son of a president, talked his way into the first wave at Utah Beach. When the landing craft came in a mile off course, he made the decision that saved the day. Five weeks later he was dead. Judy, a pointer, sits on the deck of HMS Grasshopper listening to a sailor File 037Article Yangtze River; Sumatra · 1936–1946 Prisoner 81A: The Dog Called Judy Judy, a Royal Navy ship’s dog on the Yangtze, survived two sinkings, a crocodile, a jungle trek across Sumatra and three years in Japanese prison camps. A starving airman shared his rice with her and talked a drunken camp commandant into registering her as a prisoner of war: the only dog ever to be one. German prisoner-of-war identification card of Joseph R. Beyrle, Stalag XII-A, July 1944 File 036Article Normandy; Germany; the Oder front · 1944–1945 The Paratrooper Who Joined the Red Army Joe Beyrle jumped into Normandy on D-Day with the 101st Airborne, was captured, escaped from a German prison camp and walked east until he met a Soviet tank battalion. He fought with them towards Berlin. At home he had already been declared dead, and his funeral had been held. Two Grumman F4F-3 Wildcats of Fighting Squadron 3 in flight off Oahu, 10 April 1942 File 035Article Off Bougainville; the Gilbert Islands · 1942–1943 Four Minutes over the Lexington On 20 February 1942 Lieutenant Butch O’Hare flew alone into a formation of nine Japanese bombers heading for his carrier, USS Lexington, and broke up the attack. He became the Navy’s first Medal of Honor aviator of the war. His father had been murdered for helping to convict Al Capone. Chicago’s airport bears his name. An inflatable dummy Sherman tank of the kind used in the D-Day deception File 034Article Lisbon and London · 1941–1945 Agent Garbo and the Army That Never Was Juan Pujol García, a Catalan poultry farmer, invented a network of twenty-seven spies in Britain who did not exist, and fed Hitler’s intelligence service a story so convincing that German divisions sat waiting at Calais for weeks after D-Day. Germany gave him the Iron Cross. Britain gave him the MBE. Major Richard I. “Dick” Bong, portrait File 033Article New Guinea and the Philippines · 1942–1945 America’s Ace of Aces A Wisconsin farm boy who once looped the Golden Gate Bridge became the highest-scoring American fighter pilot in history: forty Japanese aircraft, all in a P-38 Lightning. Sent home to safety, he died testing a jet fighter on 6 August 1945, the day the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. The Neuf-Brisach area of Alsace after American artillery fire, 8 February 1945 File 032Article Houssen, Alsace, France · 1942–1945 “Blanket My Position” In a frozen ditch in Alsace in January 1945, Lieutenant Garlin Conner called American artillery down on his own position to stop six hundred Germans and six tanks. He went home to a Kentucky farm and never talked about it. It took his widow, a stranger and a twenty-two-year campaign to get him the Medal of Honor, seventy-three years later.