Posted On: July 10, 2024

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.

Posted On: February 22, 2024

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.

Posted On: November 17, 2023

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

Posted On: October 5, 2023

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.

Posted On: July 21, 2023

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.

Posted On: May 19, 2023

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.