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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series presents a dramatic salute to the heroic soldiers who have won the Medal of Honor, the supreme tribute "for gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty." At the time that this video from the National Archives and Records Administration was recorded, 3,156 American servicemen had been decorated with the honor. Narrated by Alexander Scourby, this film depicts the gallantry...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hosted by John Daly, this classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series reviews the history of courage among American fighting men and the Medal of Honor, which was developed in tribute to that quality. The periods of conflict examined in this video from the National Archives and Records Administration are the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book provides the reader with a vivid portrait of African American soldiers who carried the flag of freedom and equality and how they reshaped the very definition of courage under fire during some of the most harrowing moments in the United States military past"--
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-two soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. In the Company of Heroes will feature in-depth narrative profiles of the twenty-three post-9/11 Medal of Honor awardees who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book will focus on the stories of these extraordinary people, expressed in their own voices through one-on-one interviews, and in the case...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice 'Footsie' Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of...
Series
Document volume no. 18a
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This massive work includes: extracts from statutes authorizing the congressional medal of honor, the distinguished-service cross, and the distinguished-service medal; explanatory notes; an alphabetical list of awards of the congressional medal of honor (awarded for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy); an alphabetical list of awards of the distinguished-service cross in national groups (awarded...
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