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War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:19am On Jul 06, 2022
As World War II veteran William Carpenter once said, "You show me a man who says he was brave [during World War II], and I'll show you a liar. Every one of us was afraid. Even the Germans were afraid."


Now we roll down the numbers From Desmond Doss to Audie Murphy, history's greatest war heroes gave everything for their country and embodied the meaning of bravery with their incredible acts of selflessness.

John Basilone
American Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was the only Marine to receive both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross during World War II. At the Battle of Guadalcanal, Sergeant Basilone successfully defended a narrow pass with his gun team. Afterward, he was offered a safer, base training position but Basilone turned it down in favor of going back into action. At Iwo Jima, he gave his life on the battlefield.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:21am On Jul 06, 2022
Adrian Carton de Wiart
Over four wars spanning six decades, Adrian Carton de Wiart proved himself to be one of the most dedicated and unkillable soldiers of all time. The Belgian-born British Army officer sustained 11 grievous injuries including being shot in the face, head, hand, stomach, leg, groin, and ankle. He also survived numerous plane crashes and a broken back. Despite all of these injuries, he remained fully dedicated to military service.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:22am On Jul 06, 2022
Jacqueline Cochran
Pilot Jacqueline Cochran headed up the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and tirelessly trained pilots for the program during WWII. After earning the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal in 1945, she joined the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. She also received her Air Force Command Pilot Wings and three Distinguished Flying Cross medals.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by InfernoNig: 8:23am On Jul 06, 2022
These are the true heroes, they fought for their country and are true Patriot, even when they are afraid. WW2 was the real deal. I watched most documentary on WW2 coverage, battle was real mean, watching men taking a stand to defend the brother next to him not minding the color of his skin or religion. Not like Nigerian Army, whose mandate is to frustrate and oppress the masses. Giving ranks to unqualified fat baboons based on books they read. sending the southerners to the north to fight and sending the northerners to the south to oppress the masses. The true Nigerian Army heroes are those fighting the real war against terrorism.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:24am On Jul 06, 2022
Desmond Doss
Desmond Doss was a fearless World War II medic who refused to carry a gun. Dubbed a "conscientious objector," he nevertheless single-handedly saved the lives of 50 to 100 American soldiers on the Maeda Escarpment of Okinawa in 1945.

Doss also treated his own injuries to save stretchers for others and earned the Medal of Honor, making him the first conscientious objector to do so

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:26am On Jul 06, 2022
Witold Pilecki
Polish Army Captain Witold Pilecki volunteered to enter Auschwitz in order to expose its horrors to the world. There, he organized a network of prisoners to aid him in the name of the Polish resistance
Unfortunately, the underground army thought Pilecki had exaggerated conditions in the camp and didn’t believe him.

Though Pilecki managed to escape Auschwitz and tried to liberate the camp from the outside, he was captured at the Warsaw Uprising and later executed by the Soviets on fabricated charges
Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:27am On Jul 06, 2022
Audie Murphy
A short, baby-faced boy from Texas, Audie Murphy's skill as a soldier made him one of the most decorated heroes of WWII. He earned the Medal of Honor by stalling a German attack. Wounded and alone with a gun, Murphy mounted an abandoned burning tank destroyer and held the Germans off long enough for the Allies to launch a counterattack.

After returning home a hero, Murphy launched an acting career and played himself in the film To Hell and Back.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:29am On Jul 06, 2022
Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man for two years to fight in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Shot in battle, she dug the bullet out of her own leg rather than be exposed. After an exam years later while gravely ill, she was found out and honorably discharged. She was one of the first female lecturers, and her husband was the first man to receive a widow’s pension.
Wikimedia Commons

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:31am On Jul 06, 2022
Frank Luke
In his short time fighting in WWI, Frank Luke epitomized the reckless image of a fighter pilot by going after heavily defended German observation balloons. In 30 hours of flight time over 10 missions in nine short days of combat, he shot down a remarkable 14 enemy balloons and four aircraft.

He flew his final mission on Sept. 29, 1918 but was tragically shot while in the air. Luke managed to land his plane near Murvaux, France, but perished from his wounds.

He posthumously received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:34am On Jul 06, 2022
Cathay Williams/William Cathay
Cathay Williams was the first African-American woman to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1866. After the Civil War, she enlisted in the 39th U.S. Infantry Company A an all-Black regiment that became known as the Buffalo Soldiers under the name William Cathay

She served only two years of her three-year tour before being hospitalized, discovered, and promptly sent home. After her dismissal, her health declined further. Denied military disability payments, Williams died sometime around 1893.
Wikimedia Commons

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:35am On Jul 06, 2022
Henry Johnson
As part of the Black regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters, Henry Johnson suffered 21 wounds and rescued a soldier while repelling an enemy raid in the Argonne Forest during WWI. Nicknamed "Black Death" during wartime, Johnson’s discharge papers contained errors and left out his injuries therefore denying him disability pay and his Purple Heart. He died at 32, but his military legacy lives on through his son, Herman Johnson, who served with the famous Tuskegee Airmen.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:37am On Jul 06, 2022
"Mad Jack" Churchill
WWII war hero Jack Churchill didn't use a rifle or drive a tank. Instead, this British Army officer wielded a Scottish broadsword and sometimes a longbow

As a commando, Churchill gained notoriety for charging into battle, playing the bagpipes, and throwing grenades. Even after a stint at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (from which he escaped) he continued his military escapades, walking 93 miles to rejoin the Army in Italy.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:39am On Jul 06, 2022
Virginia Hall
The Gestapo called Virginia Hall "the most dangerous of all Allied spies." They underlined the importance of tracking down the woman with a limp, which was from Hall’s use of a prosthetic leg.

Hall was the first female operative of Britain’s Special Operations Executive to be sent into France, where she worked as an Allied spy. She spied there for three years until she was forced to escape on foot through the Pyrenees Mountains. Hall later requested to be sent back into occupied France as a wireless radio operator, reporting the movements of German troops before she joined the CIA in 1951.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:40am On Jul 06, 2022
John Rabe
John Rabe may strike many as an unlikely war hero after all, he was an enthusiastic Nazi.

But Rabe proved himself a hero during the Japanese takeover of Nanjing in 1937. Sent to China for business, Rabe nevertheless stepped up and helped shelter some 200,000 from certain death. Rabe even saved women from rape by wielding his Nazi badge.Good Job buddy for a Nazi!

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:42am On Jul 06, 2022
Matthew Urban
During his tour in WWII, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Urban earned seven Purple Hearts. He was critically injured time and time again but always wanted to stay on the battlefield with his men.

Urban once even left an English hospital without permission, hitchhiked back to France, and re-joined his regiment to finish a fight cementing his nickname of "the Ghost." He repeatedly took shrapnel and bullets (even getting shot in the neck) but survived and came out the other side as an American hero.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:43am On Jul 06, 2022
Richard Bong
Called the "Ace of Aces" Major Richard (Dick) Bong took down a record 40 aircrafts in his career as a WWII pilot and earned the Medal of Honor. Once, he even shot a crocodile from the air when he noticed it following his fellow soldiers.

Bong was chosen to test a P-80, the Army Air Forces' first jet on Aug. 6, 1945. But the test went terribly wrong and Bong lost his life. Because he died on the same day as the bombing of Hiroshima, Bong's death received little notice at the time.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:45am On Jul 06, 2022
Ruby Bradley
A WWII surgical nurse, Ruby Bradley was captured three weeks after Pearl Harbor and sent to a POW camp in Manila. There, she became an "angel in fatigues," performing over 230 surgeries and assisting in childbirths under the camp’s inadequate conditions, all while smuggling in food and medical supplies.

Five years later, Bradley went to the front lines of Korean War as the Chief Nurse of the 171st Evacuation Hospital. As 100,000 Chinese soldiers advanced on her hospital, Bradley refused to leave until she'd evacuated all the injured and sick. Bradley managed to leap aboard her plane just as an enemy shell struck and destroyed her ambulance.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:47am On Jul 06, 2022
Hiroo Onoda
For 29 years after WWII ended, the dedicated Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda refused to believe that the conflict was over. Instead, he hid out in the jungle of the Philippines and continued waging a war.

Onoda refused to believe that the war had truly ended until his former superior officer flew to where he was camped out. The officer confirmed the news and relieved Onoda from duty. He was eventually pardoned for the crimes he committed while he believed the world was still at war.
Keystone-FranceGamma

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 8:48am On Jul 06, 2022
Eugene Bullard
Eugene Bullard was the first African American fighter pilot — but he flew for France because the U.S. didn't accept his service during WWI.

Flying instead for the French, Bullard fearlessly embarked on 25 to 27 missions in a plane painted with the motto, "Tout sang que coule est rouge," or "All blood runs red." He later also served as an Allied spy in Paris during WWII.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by godofuck231: 9:50am On Jul 06, 2022
TheSourcerer:
Hiroo Onoda
For 29 years after WWII ended, the dedicated Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda refused to believe that the conflict was over. Instead, he hid out in the jungle of the Philippines and continued waging a war.

Onoda refused to believe that the war had truly ended until his former superior officer flew to where he was camped out. The officer confirmed the news and relieved Onoda from duty. He was eventually pardoned for the crimes he committed while he believed the world was still at war.
Keystone-FranceGamma
Ryu

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by davillian(m): 11:01am On Jul 06, 2022
TheSourcerer:
Desmond Doss
Desmond Doss was a fearless World War II medic who refused to carry a gun. Dubbed a "conscientious objector," he nevertheless single-handedly saved the lives of 50 to 100 American soldiers on the Maeda Escarpment of Okinawa in 1945.

Doss also treated his own injuries to save stretchers for others and earned the Medal of Honor, making him the first conscientious objector to do so
Watched a movie about him
Medic and his Bible....

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by Daum: 12:10pm On Jul 06, 2022
TheSourcerer:
Hiroo Onoda
For 29 years after WWII ended, the dedicated Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda refused to believe that the conflict was over. Instead, he hid out in the jungle of the Philippines and continued waging a war.

Onoda refused to believe that the war had truly ended until his former superior officer flew to where he was camped out. The officer confirmed the news and relieved Onoda from duty. He was eventually pardoned for the crimes he committed while he believed the world was still at war.
Keystone-FranceGamma



One reason I tell people
Don't mess with the Japanese

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by 3Dii: 12:21pm On Jul 06, 2022
davillian:
Watched a movie about him Medic and his Bible....

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by 3Dii: 12:22pm On Jul 06, 2022
davillian:
Watched a movie about him Medic and his Bible....
Hacksaw Ridge. Mehn, dat film really touched me.

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by mytime24(f): 12:24pm On Jul 06, 2022
Their manhood lives on

#PJ

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by wunderkindkayod(m): 1:07pm On Jul 06, 2022
This man na Ancient COMRADE, man no gree say violence end
TheSourcerer:
Hiroo Onoda
For 29 years after WWII ended, the dedicated Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda refused to believe that the conflict was over. Instead, he hid out in the jungle of the Philippines and continued waging a war.

Onoda refused to believe that the war had truly ended until his former superior officer flew to where he was camped out. The officer confirmed the news and relieved Onoda from duty. He was eventually pardoned for the crimes he committed while he believed the world was still at war.
Keystone-FranceGamma

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TNORWAY: 1:28pm On Jul 06, 2022
davillian:

Watched a movie about him
Medic and his Bible....
no

hacksaw ridge

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by Omobithousand(f): 1:30pm On Jul 06, 2022
Watch a movie about him....he was really brave
Desmond Doss was a fearless World War II medic who refused to carry a gun. Dubbed a "conscientious objector," he nevertheless single-handedly saved the lives of 50 to 100 American soldiers on the Maeda Escarpment of Okinawa in 1945.

Doss also treated his own injuries to save stretchers for others and earned the Medal of Honor, making him the first conscientious objector to do so[/quote]

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Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 7:44pm On Jul 06, 2022
wunderkindkayod:
This man na Ancient COMRADE, man no gree say violence end
Vawulence comrade
Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 7:45pm On Jul 06, 2022
Daum:




One reason I tell people
Don't mess with the Japanese
good point !
Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 7:45pm On Jul 06, 2022
Omobithousand:
Watch a movie about him....he was really brave
Desmond Doss was a fearless World War II medic who refused to carry a gun. Dubbed a "conscientious objector," he nevertheless single-handedly saved the lives of 50 to 100 American soldiers on the Maeda Escarpment of Okinawa in 1945.

Doss also treated his own injuries to save stretchers for others and earned the Medal of Honor, making him the first conscientious objector to do so
yeah very emotional movie , was very popular at the time it premiered.
Re: War Heroes And Their Fasinsting War Stories by TheSourcerer: 7:46pm On Jul 06, 2022
davillian:

Watched a movie about him
Medic and his Bible....
yes that's the name of the movie!

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