SFC Randall David Shugart

Oct 5, 2018 | Army

Equipped with only his sniper rifle and a pistol, Sergeant First Class Shughart and his team leader Gary Gordon, while under intense small arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew...

MSG Gary Gordon

Oct 5, 2018 | Army

25 years ago, 33-year-old Gary Gordon and 35-year-old Randy Shughart, both members of the Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, were providing air cover for Rangers in Operation Gothic Serpent in Mogadishu when a fellow Blackhawk helicopter was...

CPL Quiren M. Groessl

Oct 3, 2018 | Army

Quiren M. Groessl, a German-American from Algoma, Wisconsin, described the early morning of May 28, 1918. Groessl had lied about his age to enlist in the U.S. Army, then served as a corporal in the 5th Wisconsin Regiment at the Western Front after the United States...

CPT Louis Richard Emerson Jr.

Oct 2, 2018 | Air Force, Army

I was the pilot of a C-47 towing a Waco CG4A glider with 13 troops i it. The glider cut loose successfully at the appropriate time and then I took ground fire which caused both engines in the C-47 to quit and the plane was on fire. I successfully crash landed in a...

Sarah Emma Edmonds

Sep 29, 2018 | Army

Union soldiers during the Civil War knew a comrade known as Franklin Flint Thompson, but in reality Thomspon was really a woman — Sarah Emma Edmonds — and one of the few females known to have served during the Civil War. Edmonds was born in Canada in 1841,...

SGT William Preston Armstrong

Sep 27, 2018 | Army

Enlisted in the Army. Entered via Regular Military. Served during the Vietnam War. Start of tour or enlistment date was July 5, 1968. Armstrong had the rank of Sergeant. Occupation or specialty was Light Weapons Infantry. Served with 173rd Airborne Brigade, 3rd...