Inspired by the Wright brother’s first flight at age 14, Igor Sikorsky developed his first helicopter prototype at age 20, forever changing the aviation industry.

Enlisting in the Army in 1941, Braton was stationed at Fort Mills, Phillipines. Captured in May 1942, he suffered greatly as a POW laborer in Japan, eventually losing all of his toes from disease.

Becoming a Marine means accepting uncertainty. Ernest Ferguson joined anyways, taking part in major WWII battles: Peleliu and Okinawa.

After a disastrous bombing mission in Germany, George Emerson was left as a POW in Nuremberg and the fear that no other crew members had survived.

A night of heroics by Sergeant Sam Pollard of Roswell, Idaho lead to the capture of over 100 German soldiers in Cisterna di Littoria, Italy.

From a Basque sheep farming family in Idaho to England as part of the U.S. Army Air Corps, read Manuel Aldecoa’s heroic story.