Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL at the Battle of Peleliu in the Pacific during WW2, of the 8 men awarded the Medal of Honor, 6 of them were for throwing themselves atop grenades to save nearby comradesen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down12
arrow-up1115arrow-down1external-linkTIL at the Battle of Peleliu in the Pacific during WW2, of the 8 men awarded the Medal of Honor, 6 of them were for throwing themselves atop grenades to save nearby comradesen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarehime0321@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·3 months agoAnd one of them lived after jumping on the grenade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_R._Rouh
And one of them lived after jumping on the grenade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_R._Rouh
What a badass