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Beyond the Call: Sergeant John Randolph McKinney at Dingalan Bay, Luzon, 1945
Beyond the Call: Sergeant John Randolph McKinney at Dingalan Bay, 1945 follows a quiet Georgia farm boy who becomes the last line of defense on a jungle perimeter in t...
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Patrick L. Kessler at Ponte Rotto, Italy, 1944
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Patrick L. Kessler at Ponte Rotto, Italy, 1944 traces a rifleman’s final day in the Italian campaign of World War II, from a pinne...
Beyond the Call: Seaman First Class Johnnie David Hutchins at Lae, New Guinea, 1943
Beyond the Call: Seaman First Class Johnnie David Hutchins at Lae, New Guinea, 1943 tells the story of a young Texas sailor who stayed at the helm of his wounded landi...
Beyond the Call: Technical Sergeant Peter J. Dalessandro at Kalterherberg, 1944
Beyond the Call: Technical Sergeant Peter J. Dalessandro at Kalterherberg, 1944 follows a United States Army platoon sergeant through one desperate winter day in the B...
Beyond the Call: Captain John Philip Cromwell off Truk Island, 1943
Beyond the Call: Captain John Philip Cromwell off Truk, 1943 follows a United States Navy submarine commander through his final patrol in the Pacific war, tracing the ...
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant Arthur Frederick DeFranzo near Vaubadon, France, 1944
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant Arthur Frederick DeFranzo at Vaubadon, France, 1944 follows a young Massachusetts soldier from factory floors to a wheat field in Norma...
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant Ysmael Reyes Villegas at Villa Verde Trail, 1945
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant Ysmael Reyes Villegas at Villa Verde Trail, 1945 follows a young squad leader in the 32nd Infantry Division as he leads a lone assault ...
Beyond the Call: Second Lieutenant Robert M. Viale at Manila, 1945
Beyond the Call: Second Lieutenant Robert M. Viale at Manila, 1945 follows a United States Army platoon leader through brutal street fighting during World War II in th...
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Harold Gonsalves at Okinawa Shima, 1945
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Harold Gonsalves at Okinawa Shima, 1945 follows a nineteen year old Marine artilleryman into the brutal fighting on the Motobu Pen...
Beyond the Call: Sergeant Jose Calugas at Culis, Bataan, 1942
Beyond the Call: Sergeant Jose Calugas at Culis, Bataan, 1942 follows a Filipino mess sergeant who runs through shell fire to bring a silent gun back into action durin...
Beyond the Call: Corporal John D. Kelly at Fort du Roule, Cherbourg, 1944
Beyond the Call: Corporal John D. Kelly at Fort du Roule, Cherbourg, 1944 follows a young Pennsylvania infantryman as he crawls up a bullet swept Norman hillside, carr...
“Hammerin’ Hank” over Wake Island: Major Henry T. Elrod’s Last Fight
In this Beyond the Call episode from Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine and Trackpads dot com, we travel to tiny Wake Island in December nineteen forty one to fo...
Francis C. Flaherty: The Ensign Who Stayed in the Dark
Some acts of courage happen far from any spotlight. In this week’s Beyond the Call feature from Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com, w...
Flying Home on Fire: First Lieutenant William R. Lawley Jr. and the B 17 That Wouldn’t Quit
A dead copilot in the right-hand seat. A burning engine. A jammed bomb load. Eight wounded men in the back. On 20 February 1944, First Lieutenant William R. Lawley Jr....
Isadore S. Jachman: Running Toward the Tanks
When a young Jewish family fled Berlin in the 1930s, they could not have known that their son would one day return to Europe in an American uniform and stand alone aga...
“I’ll Find You a Way Out”: Donald A. Gary and the Fires Aboard USS Franklin
This week in Beyond the Call: Medal of Honor Stories, we follow Lieutenant (junior grade) Donald Arthur Gary, the engineering officer who found hundreds of shipmates t...
“He Gallantly Gave His Life”: First Lieutenant Harry Linn Martin on Iwo Jima
On Iwo Jima, a rear-area engineer camp became a last-ditch defensive line. In the pre-dawn dark of March 26, 1945, a Japanese force crashed into the bivouac of the 5th...
John D. Bulkeley and the PT Boats of the Philippines
In early 1942, Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and his tiny squadron of PT boats became the last offensive surface force the U.S. Navy had left in the Philippines. Night a...
Corporal Melvin Mayfield and the Four Caves of Luzon
Follow Corporal Melvin Mayfield from his small-town beginnings in West Virginia and Ohio to a fire-swept ridge in the mountains of Luzon, where a lone climb against fo...
Private First Class Leonard C. Brostrom: The Scout Who Wouldn’t Stop
In the mud and bamboo outside Dagami on Leyte, a quiet rifleman from Idaho did what artillery and tanks could not. As lead scout for Company F, 17th Infantry Regiment,...