A Native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Sergeant George was part of A Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division during the Korean War. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Hoengsong, South Korea on February 12, 1951. He was...
18 year old Thomas A. Christensen, Jr., enlisted in the Navy as a Dental Technician, but found himself assigned serving alongside Marines in Korea as their Corpsman. On the drive towards the Chosin Reservoir, Christensen and his unit guarded a railroad train as it was...
18 year old Thomas A. Christensen, Jr., enlisted in the Navy as a Dental Technician, but found himself assigned serving alongside Marines in Korea as their Corpsman. On the drive towards the Chosin Reservoir, Christensen and his unit guarded a railroad train as it was...
1st Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, U.S. Army was killed by a rocket explosion on June 8, 1969, less than 10 weeks after she arrived in Vietnam. Assigned to the 312th Evacuation Hospital, 1LT Lane was working in the Vietnamese ward of the hospital when the rocket...
Specialist Jordan Byrd served as a medic in the 101st Airborne. When his unit came under fire during an operation, Byrd watched as one of his fellow soldiers went down with a shot to the leg. Without hesitation, Byrd rushed to his aid across 30 meters of open ground,...
