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Hero of Bunker Hill Salem Poor was born into a home as a slave in 1747 in Andover, Massachusetts. In 1769 Salem bought his freedom for a year’s wages, married a half-Native American half-African American woman, and in 1775 had...
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Survived three shipwrecks including the Titanic Born to Irish immigrants in Argentina in 1887, Violet nearly died in childhood of Typhoid and Tuberculosis, only her incredible will to live is said to have kept her alive. When her mother became...
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Chinese resistance fighter 1938 Fighting for the Chinese resistance against the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930s, Cheng was already a trained scout by her middle school years. She had been engaged to be married to another fighter...
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Oldest General in combat, Medal of Honor recipient, American Hero Requesting to be on the first wave of the Utah Beach invasion of Normandy, Gen. Roosevelt proceeded to direct fire and coordinate attacks all while strolling on the beach with...
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Saves Family from Burning House On his way to work on Feb. 1, 2022, Ryan saw children running out of a house on fire in James Town, Wyoming. Racing over to the house he heard a child say that his...
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22 Kills With No Legs After surviving an airplane crash in 1931 which took both of his legs, Douglas Bader went on to become one of Britain's highest scoring fighter Aces. Climbing into his Supermarine Spitfire with two metal legs,...