He charged enemy strongpoints again and again with his rifle firing from the hip. When the fight reached the gates of a German castle, he led from the front one final time.
For four brutal hours, he treated the wounded while shells and enemy troops closed in around him. Even after being critically wounded, he stayed behind so others could live.
He crossed a battlefield again and again to save the wounded under relentless fire. When a grenade landed beside a Marine he was treating, he used his own body as the shield.
In the middle of a close jungle firefight, a grenade landed among wounded Marines. One Marine moved without hesitation and chose to take the blast himself.
Three soldiers lay trapped under enemy crossfire, one badly wounded. Knowing what it would cost, their platoon leader crawled forward alone.
He first ran into the kill zone to save the wounded. Then he picked up a machine gun and charged the heart of the enemy line.
Wounded and alone in the kill zone, he crawled toward a fallen Marine instead of away from danger. Even after catching a grenade in his hands, he refused to let go of his comrade.
