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50 states, 50 heroes: Convoy hunter
Born Feb. 2, 1911, in Dover, New Hampshire, Richard Hetherington O’Kane graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Mission of no return
Born Jan. 29, 1908, Bruce Avery Van Voorhis grew up in Fallon, Nevada, where he graduated from Churchill ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Maintaining secrecy
Born May 26, 1920, in Omaha, Nebraska, John Joseph Parle was a student at Creighton University when the ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: The last war chief
Born on Oct. 27, 1913, on the Crow Indian Reservation near Lodge Grass, Montana, Joseph Medicine Crow was ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Saving the platoon
Born Sept. 19, 1937, in Dexter, Missouri, George Kenton Sisler served in the Army National Guard and then ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Valley of Death
Born Nov. 20, 1927, in Neely, Mississippi, Ed W. Freeman grew up on a farm in McLain, Mississippi. ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Fighting back at Bataan
Born March 12, 1915, in New Ulm, Minnesota, Willibald Charles Bianchi grew up on a poultry farm. Known ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Father Joe
Born May 14, 1905, in Boston, Massachusetts, Joseph Timothy O’Callahan was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest and a ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Storming Frenzenberg Castle
Born Jan. 5, 1925, in Baltimore, Maryland, Carl Vernon Sheridan joined the Army in May 1943. After training, ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Silencing the guns
Born on Oct. 2, 1918, in Portland, Maine, Charles Joseph Loring Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Army Air ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Cajun ace
Born on Feb. 15, 1921, in Lockport, Louisiana, Jefferson Joseph DeBlanc developed a fascination with aviation when he ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Frozen Fox Hill
Born Nov. 30, 1919, in Dehart, Kentucky, William Earl Barber was attending college when World War II in ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Against all odds
Born July 27, 1929, in Burlington, Iowa, Jimmie Earl Howard attended the University of Iowa for one year ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: A wound too deep
Born Sept. 22, 1949, in Mount Vernon, Illinois, Kenneth “Kenny” Michael Kays reached adulthood during the Vietnam War. ...
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50 states, 50 heroes: Running on adrenaline
Born Nov. 23, 1919, in Preston, Idaho, Leonard C. Brostrom was on a mission in California for the ...