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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. 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. Joseph Medicine Crow with President Obama after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 12 August 2009 File 031Article Germany · 1943–1946 The Last War Chief of the Crow Joseph Medicine Crow went to war in 1944 with red paint on his arms under his uniform and an eagle feather in his helmet. In Germany he completed the four deeds a Crow warrior needed to become a war chief, ending with fifty horses taken from the SS. He lived to be 102, the tribe’s historian and its last war chief. Castle Itter on its hill in the Tyrol, Austria File 030Article Itter, Tyrol, Austria · 4–5 May 1945 The Battle for Castle Itter Five days after Hitler’s death, in a castle in the Austrian Alps, American tank crews, German Army soldiers, a converted SS officer and a group of famous French prisoners, including two former prime ministers and a tennis champion, fought side by side against the Waffen-SS. General John J. Pershing presents a medal to Stubby, with Robert Conroy behind them, 1921 File 028Article Western Front, France · 1917–1919 The Stray from the Yale Bowl A brindle stray wandered into an Army training camp in Connecticut in 1917, was smuggled to France, and spent eighteen months in the trenches with the 102nd Infantry. He was gassed and wounded, and came home a celebrity. General Pershing pinned a medal on him. His rank of sergeant was never official, but nobody in the regiment argued. Charles Upham in battledress after the campaigns in Greece and Crete File 026Article Crete and the Western Desert · 1941–1942 Twice the Victoria Cross A shy New Zealand sheep farmer who did not want a medal won the Victoria Cross twice: on Crete in 1941 and on Ruweisat Ridge in 1942. No other fighting soldier has done it. Then he spent three years trying to escape from German prison camps. Audie Murphy in uniform File 010Article Holtzwihr, France · 1943–1945 The Burning Tank at Holtzwihr Audie Murphy was turned away by the Marines for being too small. On 26 January 1945, standing on a burning tank destroyer in eastern France, he held off a German attack for an hour. The One-Eyed Ghost of Zwolle File 015Article Netherlands · Korea · 1944–1951 The One-Eyed Ghost of Zwolle Léo Major lost an eye days after D-Day and refused to go home. In April 1945 he walked into the occupied Dutch city of Zwolle alone. By morning the Germans had gone. How much of that was his doing is still argued about. Sergeant Alvin C. York, 1919 File 011Article Argonne, France · 1918 Sergeant York’s Seventeen A Tennessee blacksmith’s son who had asked not to fight led the survivors of a seventeen-man patrol in the Argonne on 8 October 1918. By the end of the morning they had more than a hundred prisoners. Men of the 369th Infantry who won the Croix de Guerre, 1919 File 006Article Argonne, France · May 1918 The Sentry Post in the Argonne On sentry duty in the Argonne in May 1918, Private Henry Johnson of the Harlem Hellfighters fought off a German raiding party with grenades, a rifle butt and a knife. It took the United States ninety-seven years to give him its highest honour. Troops of the 1st Infantry Division wade ashore at Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944 File 001Article Normandy · June 1944 The Medic of Omaha Beach Wounded before he reached the sand, Corporal Waverly Woodson Jr. treated more than two hundred men over thirty hours. The Medal of Honor recommended for him never came. John Barkley ▸ Film Western Front John Barkley Alone in a wrecked tank, he broke two German attacks with their own machine gun Garlin Conner ▸ Film Western Front Garlin Conner The second-most decorated U.S. soldier of WWII — and it took 73 years to honor him Freddie Stowers ▸ Film Western Front Freddie Stowers They faked a surrender to wipe out his company. He took the hill anyway Llewellyn Chilson ▸ Film Western Front Llewellyn Chilson Truman gave him seven medals and said they should be a Medal of Honor Vito Bertoldo ▸ Film Western Front Vito Bertoldo The half-blind cook who held off two panzer divisions alone Teddy Roosevelt Jr. ▸ Film Western Front Teddy Roosevelt Jr. The oldest man on D-Day — "We'll start the war from right here" Francis Currey ▸ Film Western Front Francis Currey Six teenagers trapped by German tanks — the 19-year-old destroyed them all Stubby ▸ Film Western Front Stubby A stray dog caught a German spy and survived 17 battles — his men called him Sergeant Henry Johnson ▸ Film Western Front Henry Johnson He ran out of bullets and fought off two dozen Germans with a knife — alone Bazooka Charlie ▸ Film Western Front Bazooka Charlie He strapped six bazookas to a flight-school trainer and dove at Tiger tanks Charles Coolidge ▸ Film Western Front Charles Coolidge A tank asked if he wanted to surrender — "I'm sorry Mac, you gotta come and get me" Joe Medicine Crow ▸ Film Western Front Joe Medicine Crow He stole 50 horses from the SS and sang as he rode away — the last war chief The Battle for Castle Itter ▸ Film Western Front The Battle for Castle Itter Americans and Germans fought on the same side — against the SS