The Greatest Soldier to ever exist, EVER.

The 13 RoK Marines who charged into over a thousand North Vietnamese elite troopers, killing 400 of them while losing two of their own. It was mostly hand to hand combat.
 
Greatest soldier? Heres a small thought, Does receiving alot of medals nessacarilly mean being great, or is it simply doing ones duty. receiving many medals make a person great? If so why. The asnwer is this, receiving medals, wether many or few, has less to do with greatness than does doing ones duty and sacrificing ones life for that in which they believe, regardless of whether that belief is true or not.
 
My grandfather and other Finnish men who fought in Tali-Ihantala in WW2. He was wounded in the neck, back, left leg & left arm in a Soviet artillery barrage. He never told me anything about the things he had seen in the war, except that it wasn't very nice.
 
Did anyone know that Irish rebels went to Spain to fight in the civil war there to stop fasecist leaders.

That the French 100s of years ago use to land in Ireland to help stop invasions from England but every time landed in the wrong spot.

I wish they had GPS BACK THEN!
 
The Unknown Soldier.

The poor SOB who served his country, far from home, and made the ultimate sacrifice.

The poor SOB who stood his ground when the tanks rolled over him, when the shells burst over him, when the mines blew his feet from beneath him, and in less than a second was lost to human memory.

The poor SOB who did his duty, but was awarded no medals, got no parades, received no welcome home, because he is still guarding some small square of alien ground.

The poor SOB whose former existence is perhaps alluded to only by a nameless face in a regimental photo, an illegible scribble on the inside of a helmet, or if he's lucky, a blank, weatherbeaten cross.

The poor SOB who, because he held his position against all comers, might have been the fulcrum upon which victory and defeat were balanced: maybe, for want of this soldier, the war may have been lost.

The poor SOB, known but to God.

J
 
Temujen, AKA "Ghengis Khan". He conquered the largest empire the world has ever seen and it dwarfed Alexander's. Often he went up against more numerous and better equipped armies but still prevailed.
 
who was the one american solider who killed something like 30 men with a revolver, and captured an entire german trench singlehandedly?
 
Are you thinking of Sergeant York, Other guy? He used a pistol when he ran out of ammo with his rifle and captured an entire trench of Germans and more.
 
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