T/Sgt Donald Rudolph (E/2-20IN, 6th ID) Battle of Luzon, WWII 05FEB1945
05FEB1945: Serving as a platoon leader during the Battle of Luzon in the Philippines, T/Sgt Donald Rudolph was tending to wounded Soldiers when he noticed a few enemy fighters firing on his position. ...
20 Elo 202012min
PFC Ross McGinnis (C/1-26 IN, 1st ID) Adhamiyah, Iraq 04DEC2006
04DEC2006: Serving as a .50 cal machine gunner, PFC Ross McGinnis and his unit left COP Apache for a short patrol through the deadly streets of Adhamiyah, Iraq. Shortly into the movement, an insurgen...
19 Elo 202016min
CPL Tibor Rubin (I Co. 8th CAV, 1st CAV DIV) Korean War, 23JUL1950-20APR1953
23JUL1950-20APR1953: Having survived the Holocaust after being interned at the Mauthausen concentration camp, Tibor Rubin emigrated to the Untied States in 1948 and began looking into joining the Arm...
18 Elo 202022min
COL Robert Howard (5th Special Forces Group, MACV-SOG) Vietnam War, 30DEC1968
30DEC1968: Acting as a platoon sergeant for a Hatchet platoon in Vietnam, SFC Robert Howard was inserted behind enemy lines to search for a missing American Soldier. Coming under fire almost immedia...
17 Elo 202020min
CPO Edward Byers (US Navy SEAL Team 6) Laghman, Afghanistan 08-09DEC2012
08DEC2012: Tasked with rescuing an American hostage held in eastern Afghanistan, CPO Edward Byers and team were inserted a few hours away in Laghman Province late on the night of December the 8th. Mo...
16 Elo 202017min
SM1 Douglas Munro (US Coast Guard) Battle of Guadalcanal, 27SEPT1942
27SEPT1942: In charge of a series of landing craft during the Battle of Guadalcanal, Signalman First Class Douglas Munro was tasked with dropping three companies of US Marines behind enemy lines earl...
14 Elo 202016min
1stLt Travis Manion (MiTT, RCT 6, II MEF) Fallujah, Iraq 29APR2007
29APR2007: Serving as an advisor to the newly formed Iraqi Army, 1stLt Travis Manion set out on patrol into the ever volatile city of Fallujah, Iraq. Shortly into the mission, an enemy sniper opened ...
13 Elo 202017min
SGT Louis Van Iersel (M Co. 9th IN, 2nd ID) WWI, Mouzon, France 09NOV1918
09NOV1918: Just two days before the end of WWI, SGT Louis Van Iersel was tasked with killing two enemy sentries and conducting reconnaissance of enemy positions around a bridge that his unit was havin...
12 Elo 202017min
