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In a story that reads like a Bollywood thriller, 22-year-old flight attendant Neerja Bhanot became a symbol of courage during the 1986 terrorist hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi. As four Palestinian terrorists stormed the Boeing 747, they...
SBD Dauntless Pilot During the Battle of Midway, Richard Halsey Best launched from the USS Enterprise as the Japanese fleet fell into the American trap. In a single day, he delivered devastating blows that changed the course of the Pacific...
In 1936, two men walking across a cold bog in Nova Scotia stumbled upon a bloodied woman in a flight jacket, calmly sipping from the whisky flask she always carried on her belt. It was Beryl Markham. She had just...
A physics teacher before the war, John Bridge volunteered for bomb disposal and received just one week of training. He was sent to disarm hundreds of unexploded booby-trapped mines across Britain, where he excelled and quickly volunteered for more dangerous...
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus: A Roman Model of Civic Duty An Example of Civic Duty Followed by George Washington In 458 B.C., with a Roman legion trapped by an invading army, the Senate called on Lucius Cincinnatus, a former senator who...
Saved 3 wounded men along with 85 others while wounded Drafted into the Vietnam War in 1967, Richardson was on patrol when his platoon came under fire from a huge PAVN North Vietnamese force. Richardson dragged 3 wounded men...
