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“Last Man to Leave”: Pfc. Richard Eller Cowan at Krinkelter Wald
In December 1944, a twenty-two-year-old heavy machine gunner from Kansas helped hold a thin American line in the frozen woods of Belgium. At Krinkelter Wald, during th...
Beyond the Call: Pfc. William H. Thomas on the Ridge at Luzon
In this episode of Beyond the Call, Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine follows Private First Class William H. Thomas of the U.S. Army up a narrow ridge in the Za...
The final dive of Navy Medal of Honor diver Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg
In this episode of Beyond the Call: Medal of Honor Stories, we descend beneath the surface of Pearl Harbor to the cold, black mud of West Loch, where Navy diver Boatsw...
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Anton L. Krotiak at Balete Pass, 1945
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Anton L. Krotiak at Balete Pass, 1945 follows an acting squad leader from Chicago through the brutal fighting in the mountains of ...
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Melvin Earl Biddle between Soy and Hotton, 1944
Beyond the Call: Private First Class Melvin Earl Biddle at Soy and Hotton, 1944 follows an American paratrooper scout as he crawls through snow-choked Ardennes woods, ...
Beyond the Call: Corporal Arthur O. Beyer near Arloncourt, Belgium, 1945
Beyond the Call: Corporal Arthur O. Beyer at Arloncourt, Belgium, 1945 tells the story of a tank destroyer gunner whose solo advance under fire helped break a German d...
Beyond the Call: Private Ova A. Kelley at Buri Airstrip, Leyte, 1944
Beyond the Call: Private Ova A. Kelley at Buri Airstrip, Leyte, 1944 follows a rifleman in World War II’s Pacific campaign as a single, stunning act of courage shatter...
Beyond the Call: Private Dale Merlin Hansen at Hill 60, Okinawa, 1945
Beyond the Call: Private Dale Merlin Hansen at Hill 60, Okinawa, 1945 tells the story of a young Marine who crawled alone into withering fire to break open a critical ...
Beyond the Call: Corporal Hershel “Woody” Williams at Iwo Jima, 1945
Beyond the Call: Corporal Hershel “Woody” Williams at Iwo Jima, 1945 follows a young Marine flamethrower operator as he battles through fortified pillboxes on the blac...
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant John C. Sjogren at San Jose Hacienda, 1945
Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant John C. Sjogren at San Jose Hacienda, 1945 follows an American infantry squad leader on a fortified ridge in the Philippines during Wor...
Beyond the Call: Captain Francis B. Wai at Red Beach, Leyte, 1944
Beyond the Call: Captain Francis B. Wai at Red Beach, Leyte, 1944 follows a Chinese Hawaiian officer leading pinned-down soldiers off a deadly shoreline and into the f...
Beyond the Call: Sergeant Charles E. Mower at Leyte, 1944
Beyond the Call: Sergeant Charles E. Mower at Leyte, 1944 follows a nineteen-year-old infantry leader in the brutal Philippine campaign, guiding listeners through a de...
Beyond the Call: Private James Henry Mills at Cisterna di Littoria, 1944
Beyond the Call: Private James Henry Mills at Cisterna di Littoria, 1944 follows a young infantryman of the United States Army through his first baptism of fire in the...
Beyond the Call: Commander Lawson Paterson “Red” Ramage off Taiwan, 1944
Beyond the Call: Commander Lawson Paterson “Red” Ramage off Taiwan, 1944 follows a United States submarine skipper who drove his boat straight through a Japanese convo...
Beyond the Call: Technician Fifth Grade Eric Gunnar Gibson at Isola Bella, 1944
Beyond the Call: Technician Fifth Grade Eric Gunnar Gibson at Isola Bella, 1944 follows a company cook turned front-line guide as he leads fresh replacements along a s...
Beyond the Call: Commander Cassin Young at Pearl Harbor, 1941
Beyond the Call: Commander Cassin Young at Pearl Harbor, 1941 follows the captain of the repair ship USS Vestal through the chaos of the surprise attack as he swims ba...
Beyond the Call: Lieutenant Colonel Harold W. Bauer at Guadalcanal, 1942
Beyond the Call: Lieutenant Colonel Harold W. Bauer at Guadalcanal, 1942 follows a Marine fighter leader through the brutal air campaign over Henderson Field, tracing ...
Beyond the Call: Captain Seymour W. Terry at Zebra Hill, Okinawa, 1945
Beyond the Call: Captain Seymour W. Terry at Zebra Hill, Okinawa, 1945 follows an Arkansas-born infantry officer through the brutal ridges of the Battle of Okinawa in ...
Beyond the Call: Private George Phillips at Iwo Jima, 1945
Beyond the Call: Private George Phillips at Iwo Jima, 1945 follows an eighteen-year-old Marine in World War II whose split-second choice to smother a grenade saved his...
Beyond the Call: Colonel John Riley Kane at Ploesti, 1943
Beyond the Call: Colonel John Riley Kane at Ploesti, 1943 follows a United States Army air group commander through one of World War II’s most dangerous low-level bombi...
