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Lt. Col. Lucas distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism while serving as the commanding officer of the 2d Battalion. Although the fire base was constantly subjected to heavy attacks by a numerically superior enemy force throughout this period, Lt. Col. Lucas, forsaking his own safety, performed numerous acts of extraordinary valor in ...
He was taken by Dunlap to the battalion's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel C. Pollock, [6] who assigned him to Dunlap's rifle company as a rifleman; his punishment for going UA was an administrative reduction in rank to private. On February 14, Lucas had his 17th birthday while at sea, five days before the invasion of Iwo Jima began.
[Warning: Some photos may be considered disturbing to some.] By Eric Sandler "Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will ...
Crew of Air Force Rescue 208 Lieutenant Colonel James A. Sills Lieutenant Colonel Gary L. Copsey Lieutenant Richard E. Assaf Tech Sergeant Gregory M. Reed Senior Airman William R. Payne: For extraordinary heroism and self-sacrifice during the rescue of six Icelanders sailors who were stranded when their ship foundered in heavy seas and strong ...
A woman has died after the car she was in crashed into an Illinois river despite her husband’s desperate attempts to save her. The crash occurred near 15028 Rod and Gun Road just north of Breese ...
Headstone detail William R. Higgins' headstone in Quantico National Cemetery. In 1982 the situation in Lebanon started to become more chaotic and violent. [4] [5] [6] Three years before Higgins's kidnapping, William Francis Buckley, another retired American lieutenant colonel working for the CIA had been kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.
Finally, Swenson and a small contingent recovered the four fallen U.S. servicemen who had been discovered by a search and rescue aircraft at noon. [21] The 6-7 hour firefight caused 15 coalition deaths, including the four U.S. servicemen; also, Swenson's sergeant, Kenneth Westbrook, died of his wounds after returning from Afghanistan. [21]
A U.S. Army chaplain in training at Fort Jackson died Monday, ... The Army identified 2nd Lt. Pascal Buma, a 38-year-old member of the Oklahoma National Guard, as the soldier who died ...