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This fight proves Stephen Decatur is the most intense sailor ever
The USS Constitution was firing broadsides into the Tripoli forts as America’s six gunboats rushed into the shallow water of the harbor. The battle quickly spun into hand-to-hand fighting with US...
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That time two Navy legends fought a duel with Marines
In 1818, two of the Navy’s most famous names, Oliver Hazard Perry and Stephen Decatur, were involved, one as a participant and the other as his second, in a duel that was the culmination of a...
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This raid became the US Navy’s ‘most bold and daring act’
The USS Philadelphia, a 1,240-ton, 36-gun sailing frigate, was built by the residents of Philadelphia who collected $100,000 to fund her construction during one week in June 1798. She was completed in...
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This WWII sub captain went down with his ship to save his crew
The USS Growler was listing at 50-degrees, its bow bent sharply to the side. Japanese machine gun fire raked the bridge. Two men had already been killed and three more wounded — including the...
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This suicide mission ended the Philippine-American War
When Frederick Funston, a brigadier general of volunteers, explained his plan to Maj. Gen. Arthur McArthur, his division commander in the Philippines, MacArthur called it “a desperate thing.” “I fear...
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This deadly resistance fighter was the Wonder Woman of WWII
One of the leaders of the attack was an Australian woman that Resistance Capt. Henri Tardivat called “the most feminine woman I know.” Her name was Nancy Wake. But as she and her men approached the...
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Two POWs made a daring escape from prison just to relieve the boredom
On Jan. 23, 1943, an Italian POW named Felice Benuzzi, who was being held by the British in Africa, escaped. But for a very peculiar reason. Once free of the wire, Benuzzi and two other prisoners who...
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That time a Nazi captain recommended HMS Glowworm captain for the Victoria Cross
“The lights went out, the ship rolled and tossed and suddenly seemed to settle well on her starboard side,” stoker Bert Harris later said. “The Germans had shot us to pieces. Abandon ship!” HMS...
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This POW earned the Medal of Honor for saving his entire unit
On Apr. 24, 1951, Cpl. Hiroshi Miyamura — known as “Hershey” to his men — and his squad of a dozen machine gunners and five riflemen were stationed on a Korean hill to delay the Chinese attack...
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That time a dangling paratrooper was rescued by open-top biplane
People on the sidewalks of San Diego and at several nearby military facilities stared, transfixed, into the sky as a Marine R2D-1 transport plane slowly circled the area with what one witness later...
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