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.”
When his comrades fell before a German machine gun, Edward Talley refused to stop—charging the nest alone with only his rifle, silencing the weapon and saving his company.
When a French pilot crashed behind enemy lines, Ralyn Hill didn’t hesitate—he sprinted through machine gun fire, lifted the wounded aviator onto his back, and carried him to safety.
Armed with a captured machine gun and a disabled French tank, John Barkley turned a broken hulk into a fortress—single-handedly stopping two German counterattacks.
