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Irena Sendler in 1942 File 016Article Warsaw · 1939–1945 The Names in the Jars A Warsaw social worker used a pass for typhus inspections to get into the ghetto, and led a network of women that smuggled Jewish children out. She wrote their real names on lists and buried them in jars. 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. Desmond T. Doss File 012Article Okinawa · 1944–1945 Lord, Help Me Get One More Desmond Doss refused to carry a rifle. On a cliff on Okinawa he lowered wounded men down a rope one at a time, and became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. Portrait of Noor Inayat Khan in WAAF uniform File 005Article Occupied France · 1943–1944 Madeleine: The Last Radio in Paris A children’s author trained as a wireless operator, Noor Inayat Khan kept transmitting to London for more than three months after her network was destroyed around her. Airwomen of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment in front of a Po-2 at Gelendzhik File 004Article Soviet Union · Poland · 1942–1945 Eighteen Sorties in One Night Nadezhda Popova flew 852 combat missions in a plywood-and-canvas biplane with no radio and no guns. The German soldiers below called her regiment the Night Witches. Andrée de Jongh after receiving the George Medal at Buckingham Palace File 003Article Belgium · France · Spain · 1941–1943 Dédée and the Line Through the Pyrenees At twenty-four, Andrée de Jongh walked a British soldier from Brussels to Spain and then talked the British into funding her. The Comet Line she built brought more than seven hundred Allied servicemen home. U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal, 7 August 1942 File 002Article Guadalcanal · 1942 The Scout Who Would Not Talk Captured behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal with a small American flag hidden in his clothing, Jacob Vouza was tied to a tree, bayoneted and left for dead. He chewed through the ropes. 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. Manuel Perez ▸ Film Pacific Manuel Perez One pillbox stopped his whole company — so he took it alone and killed 18 The Arizona Kid ▸ Film North Africa & Mediterranean The Arizona Kid Wounded and alone, he charged into 200 Germans with flamethrowers and broke them Garlin Conner ▸ Film Western Front Garlin Conner The second-most decorated U.S. soldier of WWII — and it took 73 years to honor him Rodger Young ▸ Film Pacific Rodger Young The nearly deaf soldier who demoted himself — then crawled alone into the guns Snuffy Smith ▸ Film Second World War Snuffy Smith They pinned the Medal of Honor on a man who'd been peeling potatoes on KP The Flying Undertaker ▸ Film Pacific The Flying Undertaker He took on 13 enemy planes with one wingman and shot down 7 Buzz Beurling ▸ Film North Africa & Mediterranean Buzz Beurling He shot down 27 planes in 14 days — then couldn't survive peace Llewellyn Chilson ▸ Film Western Front Llewellyn Chilson Truman gave him seven medals and said they should be a Medal of Honor Joe Beyrle ▸ Film Eastern Front Joe Beyrle The only man to fight for both America and the Soviet Union in WWII Paddy Mayne ▸ Film North Africa & Mediterranean Paddy Mayne He commanded the SAS and destroyed 100 planes. Still no VC Bill Crawford ▸ Film North Africa & Mediterranean Bill Crawford They gave his Medal of Honor to his father — they thought he was dead Vito Bertoldo ▸ Film Western Front Vito Bertoldo The half-blind cook who held off two panzer divisions alone Hershel “Woody” Williams ▸ Film Pacific Hershel “Woody” Williams One man, a flamethrower, and four hours alone on Iwo Jima Charles Upham ▸ Film North Africa & Mediterranean Charles Upham He won the Victoria Cross twice — the only combat soldier in history Welch & Taylor ▸ Film Pacific Welch & Taylor They fought back at Pearl Harbor — then were denied the Medal of Honor Noor Inayat Khan ▸ Film Resistance networks Noor Inayat Khan A children's book author became the last spy in Paris — her last word was "Liberté"