Pfc. Jack Lucas received 26 operations to remove shrapnel from his torso, arm and face after hurling himself on two grenades to save his fellow Marines.
U.S. military officials announced Wednesday that the remains of three brothers from Wisconsin who were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified.
The Trapp brothers were assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, when it was attacked by Japanese aircraft while moored at Pearl Harbor.
The 78-year-old decommissioned vessel is named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers who were killed in action when the USS Juneau was sunk by the Japanese in the South Pacific during World War II.
The remains of a Navy sailor who was killed during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified and will be returned to his home state of North Dakota.
China said Thursday that long-range bombers were among the aircraft that took part in recent aerial drills over the South China Sea amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing over the strategic waterway.
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.