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Awarded the Medal of Honor for Heroically Saving Lives. On a bombing mission over France, Smith’s B-17 was hit by flack and badly shot up by German fighters. The middle section of the B-17 caught fire with exploding ammo going...
61 Bombs shot down, 7 in one night When his Hawker Tempest was hit by machine gun fire flying at 50 ft over Holland, he quickly radioed to his fellow fighters “Carry on, chaps. I’ve had it”. His Tempest rolled...
Saved his sister from the shrapnel of an airplane crash When Med Jet flight 056 took off from the Philadelphia airport on January 31, 2025 it suffered some kind of emergency which caused it to crash into a residential area....
Saved many lives by towing wounded on a raft in shark infested water When French’s ship the USS Gregory was sunk off the coast of Gadualcanal in 1942 by Japanese warships, many of the crew abandoned ship gravely wounded. French...
Joined at 16 Years Old, Killed 241 Enemy Soldiers The story of Audie Murphy is a tale of endurance, courage, will power and an example of how much a man can accomplish if he doesn’t quit. In many of his...
38 Kills, lost in a battle between two Aces Tommy McGuire was top U.S. Ace in WW2 second only to Richard Bong who was forced to stop fighting after 40 kills. On one engagement over New Guinea, McGuire downed several...
