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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...