Born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina on October 27, 1929 Noah Knight joined the US Army earning the rank of PFC serving during the Korean War.
Pfc. Knight was a member of Company F and distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and indomitable courage above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy.
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Born in Cuero, Texas, Roy Benavidez joined the US Army 5th Special Forces Group and rose to the rank of Master Sergeant during the Vietnam War.
On May 2nd 1968 then Staff Sergeant Benavidez distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely courageous actions while assigned to Detachment B56, 5th Special Forces Group Airborne, Republic of Vietnam.
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland and entering the US Army at Princeton, New Jersey Wardlaw Miles was a Captain near Revillon, France.
On September 14th 1918 Capt. Miles volunteered to lead his company in a hazardous attack on a commanding trench position near the Aisne Canal, which other troops had previously attempted to take without success.
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Henry Johnson was an African American born in 1898 in the South, at nine years old his family moved to Albany, New York to take advantage of the economic opportunities available there. When World War I broke out in Europe Henry Johnson joined the newly formed black New York National Guard unit. These black soldiers trained on the streets of New York City using broomsticks as rifles. When the United States entered the war Henry’s National Guard unit was activated and reluctantly sent to Europe.
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This story is so absolutely remarkable it may be hard to believe, but numerous eyewitnesses have confirmed that it is true!
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia to a devoted Seventh Day Adventist family, Desmond Doss asked the local draft board for non-combat duty, so they arranged for him to become a US Army medic in the 307th Infantry Division.
Near the Okinawa, Uraesoe Mura, Ryukyu Islands from April 29 to May 21 PFC. Doss was a company medic when the 1 st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar, and machinegun fire crashed into them, inflicting about 75 casualties and drove the others back.
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