Who is your countries greatest war hero? Mine personally since im American is this badass motherfucker.
After landing on Yellow Beach near Ramatuelle, Murphy's platoon was attacked by German soldiers while making their way through a vineyard. He retrieved a machine gun that had been detached from the squad and returned fire at the German soldiers, killing two and wounding one. Two Germans exited a house about 100 yards (91 m) away and appeared to surrender; when Murphy's best friend responded, they shot and killed him. Murphy advanced alone on the house under direct fire. He killed six, wounded two and took 11 prisoner.
>mfw people tell me the end of Fury was retarded and too over the top >mfw Ol' Audie did the exact same thing except by himself, wounded and with just one machine gun mounted on a burning halftrack
Carter Fisher
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Luke Cooper
>>mfw people tell me the end of Fury was retarded and too over the top imagine one guy in the tank doing it
tank toiture
Jordan Gomez
Jesus Christ this doesn't even seem possible
I want to call the Germans incompetent, but how do you deal with this fucking guy
Jason Lee
this chad >initially literally who poorfag noble (keep in mind that around 10% of society had noble birth so it didn't matter) who couldn't afford to become a hussar chooses to instead start his career as lowly mercenary very keen on looting and works his way to becoming their leader and then advancing into becoming crown hetman (one highest military rank, second only to grand hetman) of polish military just to somehow end up in national anthem some hundred years later because of how he was famous royalist who was wrecking swedes.
Nathan Price
>doesnt seem possible GOD BLESS THE USA
In October 1942, during the Battle for Henderson Field, his unit came under attack by a regiment of approximately 3,000 soldiers from the Japanese Sendai Division. On October 24, Japanese forces began a frontal attack using machine guns, grenades, and mortars against the American heavy machine guns. Basilone commanded two sections of machine guns that fought for the next two days until only Basilone and two other Marines were left standing.[9][10] Basilone moved an extra gun into position and maintained continual fire against the incoming Japanese forces. He then repaired and manned another machine gun, holding the defensive line until replacements arrived. As the battle went on, ammunition became critically low. Despite their supply lines having been cut off by enemies in the rear, Basilone fought through hostile ground to resupply his heavy machine gunners with urgently needed ammunition. When the last of it ran out shortly before dawn on the second day, Basilone held off the Japanese soldiers attacking his position using his pistol and a machete. By the end of the engagement, Japanese forces opposite their section of the line were virtually annihilated. For his actions during the battle, he received the United States military's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor.
Julian Price
Jesus, how do you even get balls like this? Just imagine some unit of guys like these and Murphy and could just fuck up an entire division by just doing asinine antics
Connor Watson
Greatest General: Ulysses S. Grant Greatest Soldier: Sgt. Alvin York Greatest Admiral: William Sims Greatest Pilot: Eddie Rickenbacher
Andrew Sullivan
Pvt. Hector Cafferata was a 20-year-old green Marine replacement. He joined Fox Company’s 2nd Platoon a few days before the first wave of Chinese troops attacked his listening post at the Toktong Pass during the early months of the Korean War that cold November night half a century ago.
Six hours later, the hulking 6-foot-3-inch Marine was a seasoned “Jarhead” who had survived a number of human wave assaults by the enemy. When daylight came more than 125 Chinese soldiers lay dead in front of his position. He was officially credited with killing 15 of the enemy and wounding many more because they didn’t think those considering him for a commendation would belive one Marine had killed that many Chinamen, according to his company commander.
>tfw you will never kill so many chinamen nobody will believe the number
Jordan Allen
Too bad he was a fucking manlet
Sebastian Hall
manlet = smaller target and smaller profile harder to spot
Isaac Kelly
>Greatest General I mean if you are gonna focus primarily on the US, then you need to go with Patton
Jonathan Lopez
C R O S S E S GROW ON A N Z I O
Zachary Rogers
Korea was crazy. Makes me remember a story my great uncle told me
Adrian Morales
Grant is the one who prevented the nation from splitting, more than anybody else, excluding Lincoln.
Tyler Hall
I had Grant in my thoughts, he was my number two.
Adam Carter
First Lt. Joseph Owen, one of the members of Baker Company who rescued Fox Company wrote, “Our first view of Fox Hill was from 1,000 yards out. It was an astonishing scene. It stopped our men in silent awe.
“The snow field that led up to Fox Company’s position was covered with bodies of several thousand Chinese soldiers. Many of them seemed to lie in peaceful sleep under blankets of drifted snow. Others had died in anguish, their bodies frozen in forms of pain. There were jumbles of dead men in padded green uniforms.
“Craters of dirt and snow made by 105 millimeter howitzers from Hagaru were filled with bodies and parts of men. Thick bands of Chinese lay at the base of Fox’s perimeter. Most of them had fallen toward the Marines position. They had died as brave men facing the enemy.
“We stood in wonder. Many of us bowed heads in prayer. Some went to their knees. Others breathed quiet oaths of disbelief. Tears came to the eyes of raggedy Marines who had endured bitter cold and savage battle to reach that place of suffering and courage,” Owen wrote.
ttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bouchard >French-born naval officer >Supported the French Revolution, became dissapointed when the Red Terror happened >Came to Argentina to support the Independence War, became a citizen >Argentine government gave him a letter of marquee, became a corsair against Spain
During a single military campaign he: >Circumnavigated Africa seizing slaver ships and fucking their shit up >Got attacked by pirates in Malaya, took three of their ships >Blockaded the Philippines, seized a dozen Spanish ships >Raided the Mariana Islands >Negotiated a treaty with King Kamehameha I of Hawaii >Took California from the Spanish >Ignited an independentist revolution in Central America >Circumnavigated the globe
Other Argentine Honorable Mentions: Jose de San Martín William Brown Manuel Belgrano Lucio V. Mansilla
Blake Gutierrez
Americans are infamous in war for their suicidal levels of bravery, which sometimes (but not often) lets them accomplish amazing things.
Elijah Gomez
Reminds me of that one Airborne soldier who fought with the Russians too
I read his book, it was breddy good
Zachary Harris
>Americans are infamous in war for their suicidal levels of bravery
Now I'm reminded of that one commander in WW1 who fired his gun from the hip when he men were cowering in the trenches and yelled COME ON YOU SONS OF BITCHES, DO YOU WANNA LIVE FOREVER?
Jose Kelly
We are warriors bred from the survivors of the 2nd world war. [spoiler]dont tred on me :^)[/spoiler]
Michael Hernandez
spoilers don't work on Veeky Forums
Levi Gonzalez
Wasn't that from Sergeant black or something as part of the Lost Battalion?
Juan Wilson
Sgt. Major Daniel "Dan" Daly, at the Battle of Belleau Wood. >Major General Butler described Daly as, "The fightin'est Marine I ever knew!"
Wyatt Nguyen
>ctrl f "leo major" >nothing found
Oh boy, you guys are in for a treat.
>Invades on D-Day, captures a german armored vehicle that contains secret army codes & communications equipment >A few days later, gets in a firefight with SS guys, kills them, but loses an eye to a phosphorus grenade. Canuckistani brass try to send him home, he declines because a marksman only needs one eye to sight his rifle. Besides, now he looked like a pirate >captures 93 Germans single-handedly in the battle of Scheldt in the netherlands, declines his ribbons because Montie was handing out the medals >helps a chaplain load bodies onto a truck, rides on the truck, truck goes over a mine, breaking almost every bone in his back & shattering both ankles >escapes from the hospital to avoid being sent home and chills with some dutchies for a few weeks before heading back to the front >single-handedly liberates the dutch town of Zwolle by convincing the Germans that the Canadian army was already in the city
>years later, Korea happens >Americans lose a hill to a large Chinese army >Leo and ten-or-so french canadian rangers sneak into the hill and force the chinese to abandon it >hold off the massive chinese force for about a day by firing the mortars straight up in the air
Guy lived the life of a bad action movie hero.
Ayden Wright
WHERE NO SOLDIERS SLEEP AND WHERE HELL'S 6 FEET DEEP
Michael Hernandez
It was Dan Daly, who won two medals of honor on two separate occasions.
Jose Clark
it wasn't a half track, it was a tank destroyer
Jacob Martinez
And I should note, this was AFTER congress changed the rules on qualification, as previously those things get handed out like candy (20 soldiers at Wounded Knee received one)
this. I hate when people try to show off and say "hurr dats unrealistic!" when they clearly have never read how batshit war can get
Christian Williams
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Isaiah Walker
It still is fucking stupid.
Lucas Campbell
General Kim Il Sung
Nathan Carter
why are modern tanks so much larger than their ww2 counterparts?
Sebastian Harris
More armor, bigger engine, bigger gun = bigger ammo = bigger ammo storage, and crew comfort being a design target. Also back then America had to ship these things across a sea and travel across Europe, a reason that America did not field more heavy tanks in WW2 is that most European bridges could not support their weight.
Daniel Bailey
>implying Wounded Knee wasn't worthy of that many Metals of Honor What are you some savage injun
Connor Sanders
Not when the thing you're awarded for is "getting under control a stampeding donkey". You shouldn't get the highest honor in the US for that.
Nolan Gonzalez
It wasn't as prestigious back then I believe.
Eli Robinson
It wasn't. As I said before, back then they handed the thing out like candy until Congress said, "ok we're handing out so many of these things that we have a back order on making them. Up the requirements for earning it"
Bentley Cox
I think a bunch of sailors got it for saving a drowning person. Fuck man I was a lifeguard gimme a Medal of Honor
On the morning of 7 August 1916, after a night of heavy shelling, the Germans began to overrun a portion of the line which included Jacka's dug-out. Jacka had just completed a reconnaissance, and had gone to his dug-out when two Germans appeared at its entrance and rolled a bomb down the doorway, killing two of his men.Emerging from the dug-out, Jacka came upon a large number of Germans rounding up some forty Australians as prisoners. Only seven men from his platoon had recovered from the blast; rallying these few, he charged at the enemy.Heavy hand-to-hand fighting ensued, as the Australian prisoners turned on their captors. Every member of the platoon was wounded, including Jacka who was wounded seven times; including an injury from a bullet that passed through his body under his right shoulder, and two head wounds.Fifty Germans were captured and the line was retaken;Jacka was personally credited with killing between twelve and twenty Germans during the engagement.
Ethan Peterson
pretty cool man
Jose Butler
No but I stopped kids from going down the waterslide 2 at a time
Isaac Allen
>Joseph Beryle Just read about this guy and it's crazy. He met Aleksandra Samusenko.
Parker Rogers
hard fucking core
Jack Martin
No, he was an American
Jayden Garcia
>Greatest Pilot: Eddie Rickenbacher
You're obviously forgetting about Dick Bong, highest scoring american ace and best name. Not to mention he organized and led the mission that took down Yamamoto.
Boyington and any P-47 ace are honorable mentions.
Joshua Parker
well you gonna tell it?
Daniel Gomez
>any P-47 ace
>be Francis Gabreski >does my time flying 47s as bomber escort >waiting for a plane back home to go get married >oh hey there's a bomber raid today let's go out for one last flight >clip prop while strafing bombers on the ground, fuck up the engine, bail out, hide out from the krauts for five days before capture >liberated by the soviets >return to US, return to USAF in Korea, become a jet ace >decide to go buzz the tower on a chink airfield with my IFF off, being the first intentional ROE violation by the USAF
He was made of aggression and death flags. Seriously, how the fuck did he manage to survive "going home to get married but I'll just take one more mission".
Kayden Cox
What a badass
Cooper Lewis
Ah yes General "Throw the Irish at em until they run out of bullets" Grant
Austin Ortiz
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Hudson Watson
i'm a bird and the true hero of our kind i'm thinking of right now is either the french 'Vaillant' or the american 'Cher Ami'.
True heroes
Samuel Myers
Sure. So there was an American convoy passing through some god forsaken valley in North Korea, and this convoy is fairly substantial, substantial enough to warrant an American Major General to ride along for the trip.
Anyway, they were driving in this deep gullet, and all along the tops of the ridge line, on both sides, North Korean and Chinese troops just started pouring over,completely outnumbering and out maneuvering the Americans. So my Great Uncle's close friend (Marty, I believe) goes to get the Major General to go see what to do, and the General had blown his head off so he wouldn't have gotten tortured for information.
Marty later became an alcoholic and beat his wife on the regular.Fucking Korea man
Andrew Foster
In his book he mentioned that a "relationship" was forming between the two, but who knows, that could have been added to just spice up the book
I did really enjoy the multiple times he escaped German POW camps though
Chase Lopez
>superhuman
a guy in an armored vehicle in the middle of the night opens fire on a recon squad in panic
why are americans so prone to ramboism?
its literally nothing, the best course of action for him
>in a tank, relative safety >fire wildely hoping he scared the opposition away
lucky him they didnt have a panzerfaust
Jaxon Baker
American military doctrine favours offense and independent action over the European defense and central planning. It's been like this since at least WWI.
Asher White
To be fair, Audie killed/wounded around 50 German soldiers, most of whom probably didn't even know where he was due to the smoke from the burning tank destroyer. In Fury they come under attack by an SS battalion equipped with panzerfausts but manage to kill at least a hundred soldiers and wound many more The two fights are not really comparable
Jaxson Reed
>tfw i live near the podunk town he grew up in Oh, gather 'round me, comrades; and listen while I speak Of a war, a war, a war where hell is six feet deep. Along the shore, the cannons roar. Oh how can a soldier sleep? The going's slow on Anzio. And hell is six feet deep.
Praise be to God for this captured sod that rich with blood does seep. With yours and mine, like butchered swine's; and hell is six feet deep. That death awaits there's no debate; no triumph will we reap. The crosses grow on Anzio, where hell is six feet deep.
Jackson Hall
Forgot to put mine >"legend states that in 1836 Lt.Col. Willaim Barret Travis unsheathed his sword and drew a line on this ground before his battle-weary men stating, "those prepared to give their lives in freedoms cause, come over to me!" travisletter.com/the-letter.html His words definately gave new life to the revolution, like Patrick Henry
Grayson Price
He killed nearly 200, and for sure knew where he was lad. They were throwing grenades at him and shooting at him. He suffered 3 leg wounds, one from shrapnel and the rest from bullets i believe.
Joseph Perez
Hahahahaha! Dick bong. What a terrible person to shoot you out of the sky. Sent into the drink by...DICK BONG- like a bad xbox name
Julian Bell
>He killed nearly 200 Fuck, I'm mixing him up with someone else then
Dominic Price
Jesus
Easton Nelson
Pacific War was full of insanity like that too
>For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty at Saipan, The Mariana Islands, 19 June to 7 July 1944. When his entire company was held up by fire from automatic weapons and small-arms fire from strongly fortified enemy positions that commanded the view of the company, Sgt. (then Pvt.) Baker voluntarily took a bazooka and dashed alone to within 100 yards of the enemy. Through heavy rifle and machine gun fire that was directed at him by the enemy, he knocked out the strong point, enabling his company to assault the ridge. Some days later while his company advanced across the open field flanked with obstructions and places of concealment for the enemy, Sgt. Baker again voluntarily took up a position in the rear to protect the company against a surprise attack and came upon two heavily fortified enemy pockets manned by two officers and ten enlisted men which had been bypassed. Without regard for such superior numbers, he unhesitatingly attacked and killed all of them. Five hundred yards farther, he discovered six men of the enemy who had concealed themselves behind our lines and destroyed all of them. On 7 July 1944, the perimeter of which Sgt. Baker was a part was attacked from 3 sides by from 3,000 to 5,000 Japanese. During the early stages of this attack, Sgt. Baker was severely wounded, but he insisted on remaining in the line and fired at the enemy at ranges sometimes as close as 5 yards until his ammunition ran out. Without ammunition and with his weapon battered to uselessness from hand-to-hand combat, he was carried about 50 yards to the rear by a comrade, who was then himself wounded. At this point Sgt. Baker refused to be moved any further stating that he preferred to be left to die rather than risk the lives of any more of his friends. A short time later, at his request, he was placed in a sitting position against a small tree.
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Isaiah Ramirez
Another comrade, withdrawing, offered assistance. Sgt. Baker refused, insisting that he be left alone and be given a soldier's pistol with its remaining eight rounds of ammunition. When last seen alive, Sgt. Baker was propped against a tree, pistol in hand, calmly facing the foe. Later Sgt. Baker's body was found in the same position, gun empty, with 8 Japanese lying dead before him. His deeds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.
Owen Gomez
Captain Ben L. Salomon was serving at Saipan, in the Marianas Islands on July 7, 1944, as the Surgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. The Regiment’s 1st and 2d Battalions were attacked by an overwhelming force estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 Japanese soldiers. It was one of the largest attacks attempted in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Although both units fought furiously, the enemy soon penetrated the Battalions’ combined perimeter and inflicted overwhelming casualties. In the first minutes of the attack, approximately 30 wounded soldiers walked, crawled, or were carried into Captain Salomon’s aid station, and the small tent soon filled with wounded men. As the perimeter began to be overrun, it became increasingly difficult for Captain Salomon to work on the wounded. He then saw a Japanese soldier bayoneting one of the wounded soldiers lying near the tent. Firing from a squatting position, Captain Salomon quickly killed the enemy soldier. Then, as he turned his attention back to the wounded, two more Japanese soldiers appeared in the front entrance of the tent. As these enemy soldiers were killed, four more crawled under the tent walls. Rushing them, Captain Salomon kicked the knife out of the hand of one, shot another, and bayoneted a third. Captain Salomon butted the fourth enemy soldier in the stomach and a wounded comrade then shot and killed the enemy soldier. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Captain Salomon ordered the wounded to make their way as best they could back to the regimental aid station, while he attempted to hold off the enemy until they were clear.
Alexander Price
Captain Salomon then grabbed a rifle from one of the wounded and rushed out of the tent. After four men were killed while manning a machine gun, Captain Salomon took control of it. When his body was later found, 98 dead enemy soldiers were piled in front of his position. Captain Salomon’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
Owen Stewart
I served under his great-grandson in the Army in 08.
Lucas Morgan
To be fair, Daly took on a horde of Chinese Boxers by himself with just a shitty Norwegian rifle.
Motherfucker took "to quit my post only when properly relieved" seriously
Hunter Flores
>Patton
The most overrared, talentless hack in american history.
Brandon Anderson
>The most overrared, talentless hack in american history. Actually wrong
Cameron Peterson
Honestly I would respect that more if I didn't know just how badly the Boxers never stood a chance in hell.
Charles Ross
>french qts will never run from the streets to kiss you and give you flowers
Ayden King
Stephen Decatur >navy commodore >veteran of the Quasi War >kills any faggot that insults him in duels >veteran of the Barbary Wars >successfully lead the mission to burn the USS Philadelphia >led the navy to victory at Tripoli >his brother is killed by a cowardly enemy captain who feigns surrender and then just kills him >Stephen gathers up a small group of sailors, tracks down this captain, is the first to board his ship, gets into a fist fight with him, and then blows his brains out >Veteran of the War of 1812 >personal friends with President James Madison >dies in a duel like any naval commander worth his salt >almost every single state in the US has multiple streets and what not named after him and no one really knows it
Luis Adams
Jesus Christ
Robert Wright
It's rough
Angel Campbell
Hero of the Republic.
Christian Williams
Patton helped lay the foundation of modern offensive and combined arms doctrines in the Western world. Talentless, indeed.
Jackson Nelson
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Levi Morgan
Literally so badass he makes Chris Kyle look like a pussy and would give Simo Hayha a run for his money. Also helped inspire that pregnant Anne Frank sniper fanfic /k/ wrote.
>after two of his sons were executed as suspected bushwhackers by Federal troops; their heads were cut off and stuck on the gate-posts to Hinson's home. wait, what the fuck
Parker James
That's the merciful Yankee for yah.
Christian Mitchell
unfortunately we don't have much war heroes left in this country since this country is run by nothing but a bunch of millennial subhumans who continue to wear the diapers past their adulthood because Satan has possessed them and convince them that we're in the diapers is okay past the age of 5. I've seen too many of you damn whippersnappers and your diaper fetishes and and you'll soon for ways of of using the diaper for your sexual purposes the sexual fetish. This Great War hero that you pictured here would be disgusted by today's millennial generation so I can't find any more Walsh heroes in this country because it's all been taken over by a bunch of millennial subhumans that continue to fill their diapers with the sinful excrement of muck and filth knowing full well they are sinners destined for hell if they continue this disgusting habit. Damn whippersnappers damn kids damn millennials.
Noah White
how is that even real and how is there not a movie about it
Dylan Jones
Matt?
Wyatt Lee
fuck, thanks for reminding me i'm still mad that gearbox realized they could make more money with zero effort by producing colorful random number simulator for retards every other year and brothers in arms will never be finished
Chase Bailey
such a good game
>that last difficulty mode that takes away your entire HUD
