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  • Horatius Cocles:  The Hero at the Bridge

    Horatius Cocles: The Hero at the Bridge

    One Man’s Valor Forever Remembered In 509 B.C. an army marched against Rome from Etruscia. When the army got to the bridge separating them from the city, Horatius Cocles, a Roman officer, planted himself on the narrow bridge to give...

  • Carter Harman: First Helicopter Rescue Mission

    Carter Harman: First Helicopter Rescue Mission

    WW2 Jungle Rescue behind enemy lines In 1944 deep in the rainforest of Burma, a new sound was heard by the military of both sides: the chopping blades of a helicopter. When four Special Operations soldiers and a pilot of...

  • Geoffrey De Havilland’s Mosquito: the Wooden Wonder

    Geoffrey De Havilland’s Mosquito: the Wooden Wonder

    The De Havilland Mosquito: a wooden fighter that couldn't be stopped The De Havilland Mosquito was a wooden aircraft that fulfilled both bomber, reconnaissance, and fighter roles and was one of the fastest aircraft of the war. By the time...

  • Colonel Christopher Gadsden: The Essence of American Defiance

    Colonel Christopher Gadsden: The Essence of American Defiance

    Christopher Gadsden was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence and a staunch resistor of England’s interference of the Colonial way of life. Also inventor of the Gadsden Flag depicting a timber rattle snake ready to strike...

  • Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy: An American Lion

    Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy: An American Lion

    Surrounded, outnumbered, under fire he risked it all to make one phone call Michael Murphy, a US Navy Seal, received the Medal of Honor for risking his life and giving it, to make a phone call for an extraction for...

  • Forgotten Heroes:  Chiune Sugihara

    Forgotten Heroes: Chiune Sugihara

    The Japanese man who saved 6000 Jews from death during WW2 Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese Empire diplomat in Lithuania working at the Consulate. After hearing the pleading of thousands of Jewish refugees from German and Soviet occupied Poland, he...