When his company was pinned down by German fire, Gary Foster charged alone through the smoke and bullets—destroying the guns and capturing eighteen men single-handedly.
Wounded in the shoulder and bleeding badly, James Dozier refused to stop—crawling forward under fire to destroy a machine gun nest and lead his men to victory.
When his entire team fell under German fire, Henry Costin fought on alone wounded and dying but still firing his automatic rifle until the enemy surrendered.
Pinned down by German guns near Consenvoye, Johannes Anderson crawled alone through open fire—flanked the machine gun nest, captured it, and marched 23 prisoners back to his line.
Wounded and leading his men through fire in the Korean night, Lewis Watkins saw a grenade fall among them—and threw himself upon it to save their lives.
Mortally wounded in the darkness of a French village, James Harris crawled back to his tank and kept fighting—directing the battle from the ground until his last breath.
For five days in the Argonne, surrounded and starving, Major Charles Whittlesey refused surrender—holding his ground with what history would remember as “The Lost Battalion.â€
