Wounded once, then wounded again, he still refused treatment. He kept returning into the fire until his body finally gave out.
After losing his leg to enemy mortar fire, he refused evacuation. He asked only to be placed where he could keep fighting.
Wounded early in the fight, he kept returning to the fire to save others. Then he went hunting machine guns one by one until the enemy line broke.
Wounded in the legs, then shot in the arm, he kept crawling toward the guns. Even after destroying three machine-gun positions, he tried to save one more wounded soldier.
A stalled armored column faced mines, bridges rigged to blow, and enemy fire from every direction. One squad leader went forward alone and cleared the road with his life.
Shot again and again, he kept moving toward the cries for help. For hours on a shattered hillside, he refused to stop saving Marines.
Six assaults had already failed against the enemy-held hill. When a wounded Marine lay exposed beneath machine-gun fire, one squad leader attacked the gun alone.
