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Most decorated American Indian Soldier After being awarded a Silver Star and Purple Heart in 1944 for attacking a German machine gun nest with grenades and destroying it, Pascal’s next war was on the Korean peninsula. There he was awarded...
Survived 2 Prison Camps, disease, shipwreck, Atomic Bombing Some men are hard to kill: enter Alistair Urquhart, stage left. After the capture of Singapore by the Japanese, Alistair was sent to Thailand as a slave to work on the railroad...
Hero of Bunker Hill Salem Poor was born into a home as a slave in 1747 in Andover, Massachusetts. In 1769 Salem bought his freedom for a year’s wages, married a half-Native American half-African American woman, and in 1775 had...
Survived three shipwrecks including the Titanic Born to Irish immigrants in Argentina in 1887, Violet nearly died in childhood of Typhoid and Tuberculosis, only her incredible will to live is said to have kept her alive. When her mother became...
Chinese resistance fighter 1938 Fighting for the Chinese resistance against the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930s, Cheng was already a trained scout by her middle school years. She had been engaged to be married to another fighter...
Oldest General in combat, Medal of Honor recipient, American Hero Requesting to be on the first wave of the Utah Beach invasion of Normandy, Gen. Roosevelt proceeded to direct fire and coordinate attacks all while strolling on the beach with...
