WW2

While CPT Salomon was working to stabilize a patient, he looked up and saw a Japanese soldier slip into his tent and bayonet a wounded American.

When war broke out, Harrisson joined the Army, as did almost every British male of appropriate age and fitness.

At age six, George and his father made a model airplane. He took his first flight in a real plane at age 9. From that point forward, he began skipping school to spend time with the mechanics and pilots at the local aerodrome.

On 18 July 1944, an officer in the Irish Guards named LT John Gorman commanded a section of three M4 Shermans out looking for trouble as part of Operation Goodwood.

The Purple Heart was awarded retroactively for wounds received during World War 1. MacArthur himself was the first recipient. It was standardized across all services in December of 1942. However, the Purple Heart is a military award no sensible person covets.

While Landry was indeed a jock, he also enjoyed a brilliant analytical mind. Upon graduation from high school, he enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin studying industrial engineering. However, the vagaries of fate soon intervened.

Running low on ammunition and facing a determined enemy in a built-up battlespace, Digby ordered a desperate bayonet charge.

Poole had joined the British Army in 1939 and gravitated toward the hard jobs. With the invasion of France looming, LT Poole volunteered for one of the most dangerous missions of the war.

Carton de Wiart was raised in a world of privilege, but he was never soft.