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BG Joseph V. Medina

Since the days of the American Revolution, the Armed Forces have served as a place in which conflicts of race could be put aside for the protection of the nation and its people. Through a career that spanned 31 years, Brigadier General Joseph V. Medina served his...

CAPT Thomas J. Hudner, Jr.

Thomas Hudner had no particular interest in airplanes when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946. He wanted only to serve aboard a ship. But in 1948, after he had been at sea for several months and had worked as a communications officer at Pearl Harbor for a...

MM3 Doris Miller

Doris Miller is credited with shooting down several Japanese planes with a machine gun from the deck of the U.S.S. West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor. When news of his actions reached the public, the African-American community saw him as their symbol of...

CPL Paul Alexander Steppe, Jr.

War:  Korean War, 1950-1953 Branch:  Marine Corps Unit: 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division Service Location:  Camp Pendleton, California; Korea Paul Steppe, a Marine infantry corporal serving in Korea, saw fierce action, punctuated by long nights...

LTC Hubert Menno Amstutz

“The things that you’ll have to take care of in the Army are things that you will never see any place else.” (Video Interview, 6:52) War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Unit: 97th Evacuation Hospital, 1st Army At 41, Hubert Amstutz was older than...