3 heroes who became POWs twice
There is no easy time to be a prisoner of war.
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In March 1967, U.S. Air Force Capt. Merlyn Dethlefsen and three other F-105 Thunderchief pilots were tasked to fly 50 miles north of Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. Once there, they were to destroy the Thai Nguyen Steel Works.
The wo… Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher’s dad says his boy is a “lucky man.” The Royal Marine was attached to 40 Commando Group in Afghanistan in 2008. On a night raid on a bomb maker’s compound in Sangin, he brushed a tripwire. The grenade sprung, then… Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Winder Perez was fighting in Afghanistan in January 2012 when he was shot with a rocket-propelled grenade that pierced his leg and remained stuck there without detonating.
A medical evacuation crew ignored regulati… These days it’s hard to think of a veteran who could have served from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. It’s happened, of course.
But imagi… Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock is a legend of Marine Corps history. One of the most lethal snipers in history, he even repeatedly succeeded in killing snipers sent to hunt him. In one of his last missions on a tour in Vietnam, he crawled nearly two mi… In World War II, an American aircrew found itself at the mercy of a German fighter and expected to be shot out of the sky. But something else happened entirely . . .
The America… Army Air Corps Tech. Sgt. Ernest Merle Hancock was the top turret gunner in a B-17 bomber flying into Nazi Germany from Italy in the third of three American bomber groups. The German forces at the target offered some resistance to the first two bomb… While Carlos Hathcock is perhaps the most famous sniper of the Vietnam War, he actually ranks fourth in the number of confirmed kills.
Yeah, that’s right. Hathcock was out-scor… Gen. George S. Patton was a complicated military figure, but there can be little debate over whether he was quotable.
Perhaps most famous for his commanding of the 7th Army during World War II, Old “Blood and Guts” often gave rousing sp…This Air Force pilot took on an entire anti-aircraft complex – and won
This Royal Marine threw himself on a grenade – and walked away with a nosebleed
That time a Marine had a live RPG stuck in his leg
This War of 1812 veteran saw the Battle of Gettysburg from his porch – then joined it
This sniper crawled nearly 2 miles to kill one enemy general
How an act of mercy made fishing buddies out of airborne adversaries
The American aircrew takes a heavy beating
This brave turret gunner faced 200 German aircraft
These 3 snipers had more kills than Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam
11 quotes that show the awesomeness of Gen. George Patton