Army Lt. Col. Don Carlos Faith Jr. was one of thousands of men forced to fight through frigid conditions and…
Douglas MacArthur was born in January 1880 on an Army base in Little Rock, Ark. His father was Army Capt….
Born in June 1950 to a family in which “everyone had [served] in the past,” Gordon Roberts was destined to…
During the U.S. Army’s push toward Berlin in World War II, Maj. Gen. George Lafayette Mabry Jr. nearly single-handedly forced…
Lewis Millett was born in December 1920 in Mechanic Falls, Maine, and was raised in South Dartmouth, Mass. Enlisting in the Massachusetts…
Donald “Doc” Ballard was born in Kansas City, Mo., in December 1945. Growing up, he helped his family in house construction and entrepreneurial…
Navy Rear Adm. Daniel Judson Callaghan had been in the service for a long time before World War II sent…
When Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Robert Dale Reem led his fellow Marines into battle in Korea, he did his best…
When World War II began, Japanese Americans like James Kazuo Okubo weren’t allowed to join the fight because of fears…
Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Daniel Joseph Daly is the only enlisted member of the Corps to have earned the Medal…
Ola Lee Mize was born in Albertville, Ala., in 1931. He grew up poor, working in the fields for low…
Vernon Baker was born in Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1919. At four, he lived with his grandparents after the death of his…
When a torpedo came toward Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Osmond Kelly Ingram’s ship in World War I, he knew…