Tales of Valor: Rebirth of Latter-Day Heroes in the Image of Biblical PaladinsXlibris Corporation, 28. 6. 2004 - Počet stran: 608 Which astronaut repaired the Hubble telescope during a walk in space? Who was the model for the movie "The Man Who Never Was?" What officer was responsible for the eradication of flogging in the U.S. Navy? Who is the most decorated living U.S. Army veteran? That the uncle of a world-famous entertainer won the Distinguished Service Cross in Korea? What officer led the mission to rescue General Patton's son-in-law? Who was the commanding officer of the famed WW II B-17 Rosie's Riveters? Who commanded both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets of the U.S. submarine forces? What soldier, born in Lithuania, was the Commanding General of the U.S. Special Forces? Who commanded the battleship Utah at Pearl Harbor and received the Navy Cross? What French general was commended by Napoleon as "...one of the greatest of the great?" What general commanded the Australian forces in France in World War I? Who was and remains the only dentist in the Army to win the Congressional Medal of Honor? Who won both the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross in World War I? Who won the Navy Cross during World War I and another during World War II? What Navy surgeon received the Silver Star in Vietnam and is being considered for the Medal of Honor? Who was one of the first nurses to die in Europe in WW II and is buried in a military cemetery in France? What famous Los Angeles police officer and attorney won two Bronze Stars in Vietnam as a paratrooper? Who was the Jewish chaplain who gave his life aboard the SS Dorchester to save American soldiers? What Israeli astronaut was the youngest participant in the 1981 raid on the Osirak nuclear plant in Iraq? |
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Global Guts | 24 |
American Heroes | 79 |
World War II Distinguished Service Cross | 97 |
World War I Navy Cross | 112 |
Korean War Distinguished Service Cross | 145 |
Introduction | 151 |
Solomon Isquith | 153 |
Private First Class Leonard M Kravitz | 157 |
Jerry Leibs | 319 |
Morris Eisenstein | 338 |
Ben Abramowitz | 344 |
Maurice Raffel | 357 |
Joseph L Portnoy | 360 |
Melvin Garten | 374 |
Howard J Lasker | 380 |
Melvin Rapport | 387 |
Maurice Levy | 159 |
Lieutenant Hyman Goldberg | 160 |
Abraham J Baum | 162 |
Sidney Goldstein | 164 |
Chaplain Alexander D Goode | 168 |
Sergeant Edward B Armson | 173 |
Java Is Hot | 184 |
Medic In Close Combat | 189 |
Survival At Sea | 191 |
The Cairo Raid | 198 |
Hill 350 | 202 |
Fondouk Gap | 205 |
The Riveters | 212 |
Requiem for a Hero | 226 |
Hero Lost At Sea | 231 |
The Jewish Rommel | 236 |
The Old Breed | 245 |
Tales of Hoffman | 259 |
Football Navy China | 265 |
Modesty Unbridled | 269 |
Hymie | 275 |
Superjew | 279 |
Oral Histories | 299 |
Marty Schlocker | 300 |
Arthur Weiss | 313 |
William Yenofsky | 392 |
Bernard M Kauderer | 404 |
Irving H Sanow | 410 |
Gil Wolfson | 418 |
Jack Silberman | 422 |
Arthur Rubin | 426 |
Charles Feureisen | 438 |
Ralph Ransenberg | 448 |
Edward Feldman | 479 |
Stanley Hyman | 486 |
Irving A Elson | 493 |
Frank Cohn | 502 |
Seymour S Weisman | 514 |
Martin Gould | 526 |
Julius Kernberg | 531 |
Melvin Kabik | 536 |
Sheldon A Bernstein | 539 |
Bob Golosov | 546 |
Arthur Katz | 559 |
Willliam S Lyons | 565 |
Yonel Yogi Dorelis | 571 |
Louis Segaloff | 575 |
Oscar Salgo | 582 |
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