A bridgehead under attack. Tanks closing in. One soldier stayed behind to hold the line.
A grenade landed in the bunker. One soldier moved before anyone else could.
Pinned by a superior enemy force. A wounded lieutenant refused to leave his men.
The patrol was cut down by enemy fire. The medic kept moving from man to man.
Surrounded, outgunned, and cut off—he stayed with his soldiers to the end.
An airstrip under siege. Enemy soldiers closing in. He landed anyway.
Surface-to-air missiles. Antiaircraft guns. MiGs overhead. He kept attacking anyway.