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Shot down 28 German fighters in WWII, 6 in Korea The Republic P-47 nicknamed the Jug, was a huge fighter that dwarfed all other fighters of the time. It was also arguably the best fighter of WW2. Francis Gabriski was...
Shot down 5 Japanese aircraft in a P-47N When Perdomo and his squadron encountered 50 Japanese aircraft over Japan in the final days of the war, he shot down 4 Ki-84 fighters and one bi-plane trainer in a single combat...
Destroyed pillboxes, rescued two men, shot in chest and eye When Jesse was assigned to the Americal Division in 1944 on the jungle island of Bouganville, he saw three soldiers from his company get badly wounded, cut down by machine...
His Toxic Masculinity sets the bar for us all When Kentucky coal miner Michael McGuire got off his shift at 5 PM he knew he only had less than an hour to take his kid to his first basketball game...
An American Hero of Jewish-Hungarian Descent When Tibor and his family were sent to Nazi death camps in WW2, only he survived. Liberated by American troops at age 13, he vowed to become an American and enlisted in the Army...
Threw Himself into Harm’s Way that others may live In 2019 When a lone gunman started shooting unarmed students at University of North Carolina, Riley immediately raced towards the gunfire. He ran at the gunman who shot him twice before...
