Between July 15th and 19th, his platoon was tasked with a dangerous mission—assaulting and securing a heavily fortified North Vietnamese position tucked deep into the jungled ridges of the A Shau Valley.
He pinpointed five enemy positions, silenced one, and returned to lead his men in a fierce assault that drove the Japanese from the battlefield—capturing or destroying ten machine guns and four mortars.
In the blistering heat of the Second Battle of the Marne, as American and French forces advanced through the shattered wheatfields and blood-soaked ridges near Soissons, Second Lieutenant Samuel I. Parker found himself and his men facing annihilation.
On the blood-soaked fields near Vierzy, France, during the brutal Allied offensive of July 1918, Lieutenant Joel T. Boone, a Navy medical officer attached to the 6th Marine Regiment.
In the maelstrom of World War I, few men exemplified courage under fire like John Henry Balch. Serving as a Navy corpsman attached to the battle-hardened 6th Marine Regiment, Balch risked everything
During the blistering jungle heat of Operation HASTINGS, Major Robert J. Modrzejewski led Company K into a dense and enemy-infested region along a critical trail network in northern Quang Tri Province.
In the blistering jungle heat of Quang Tri Province, Second Lieutenant John J. McGinty III found himself and his 32-man platoon at the heart of a violent, four-hour battle against an enemy force estimated to be a full regiment strong.
