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* Brigadier Gen. Theodore Roosevelt (Son of President Teddy Roosevelt, who had numerous CMoA himself) requested several times to lead the assault on Utah Beach on D-Day personally. He was suppose to land with the first wave and since he's the oldest man on the beaches at age 57. The landings at Utah beach had drifted a mile off course. Roosevelt, armed with a pistol and using a because of his arthritis and wounds that he had suffered during [[World War I]], led the reconnaissance of that area, returned to the landing, and declared, "We'll start the war from right here!" and effortlessly averted a huge military disaster by directing each landing to its changed objectives personally, securing the westernmost flank of the Normandy Landings. He later earn the Medal of Honor for these actions.
* Edward "Teddy" Sheean, who was just a seaman on board the HMAS ''Armadale'', when the Japanese attacked the ship, critically damaging it, and began to strafe the men in the water. Teddy strapped himself into one of the AA guns of the ship and covered the men overboard. Even when the ship sank, rounds were still coming out of the water. Today there's a Australian naval submarine named after him, the HMAS ''Sheean''.
** Fittingly, the HMAS ''Sheean'''s motto would be two simple words: "Fight on."
* Charles Hazlitt Upham. A New Zealander and one of the three men in history to get two Victoria Crosses (The highest Commonwealth award for Valor) for his combatant bravery (A feat which is also unmatched for the American Congressional Medal of Honor).
** Why? Because he received his first Victoria Cross due to NUMEROUS acts of gallantry during the defense of Crete (Though it was hopeless), including single handedly taking out enemy positions on several locations, leading his platoon through enemy fire, saving other soldiers from enemy fire, and finally killing 22 Germans in a single engagement. He, Charles Upham, did all of that while suffering from a very severe dysentery, which gave him a "skeletal appearance," and badly wounded in the foot and shoulder which came from being blown up by mortar fire, twice.
** Upham's second VC was equally deserved. He received it in the July 1942 attack on Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt. This time it's hand grenades. He did all of this, with one elbow shattered thanks to machine gun fire. (Hence the "single-handed" part). After this action, he was captured, made a PoW wherein he made so many escape attempts he was labeled as dangerous, and sent to the infamous Colditz castle. When he finally was able to escape, Charles Upham re-armed himself and went to the small local town to hunt more Germans.
*** See this page for more of Charles Upham.
* Major James H. Howard, a U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF),
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