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  • 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...

  • Sameul Sandoval

    Sameul Sandoval

    The last of an American Legend: Code Talkers One of three surviving Code Talker American Indians, Sameul Sandoval, has just passed away July 1, 2022 at age 98. Rising to the call of the United States during WW2, the Code...