Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Elmer C. Bigelow likely knew that rushing into a smoke-filled compartment on a burning ship…
On a fall morning in 2005, Kasinal Cashe-White received an inconspicuous phone call from the Army. She learned that her…
Navy Cmdr. Howard Walter Gilmore ordered many daring maneuvers while his submarine, USS Growler, prowled the waters of the Pacific…
Army Maj. Carl Henry Dodd hadn’t been an officer for long when he led a platoon of soldiers into a…
Eddie Rickenbacker was a champion race car driver. He was also an aircraft fighter ace in World War I, who…
Army Spec. 5th Class Clarence Sasser was a part-time college student when he was drafted into the Army as a…
Highlighting recipients of the nation’s highest medal for valor If you were riding in a damaged airplane with injuries that…
On Jan. 4, 1945, Jachman was with Company B in Flamierge, Belgium, when they were suddenly pinned down by heavy…
Pearl Harbor wasn’t the only U.S. military base attacked by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941. U.S. service members on…
The 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killed more than 2,400 U.S. personnel and thrust the U.S. into World War…
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Pruden volunteered to join the Army as the Vietnam War raged because he’d told his family…
Marine Corps Lt. Col. Harold W. Bauer was an ace pilot whose actions during World War II were instrumental to…
The last surviving Medal of Honor recipient to have fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Hershel “Woody” Williams, made…