On October 28, 1944, in the forests near St. Dié, France, Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams faced the impossible. His company was cut off from supplies, trapped by German forces entrenched with machine gun nests and snipers. Without hesitation, Adams volunteered to clear the path. Armed...

Pfc. George A. Guckenberger, a 22-year-old paratrooper with D Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, hunkered down in a snow-covered foxhole near Bastogne, Belgium. This moment came during the final days of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest and bloodiest...