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Medal of Honor Netflix Series Trailer
Posted on 10/4/18 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 10/4/18 at 1:05 pm
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Follows Medal of Honor recipients and tell's their stories with real life interviews as well as reenactments.
Follows Medal of Honor recipients and tell's their stories with real life interviews as well as reenactments.
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Posted on 10/4/18 at 1:11 pm to StarkRebel
Hnnggg. Great idea, gives me chills
ETA: Roy Benavidez’s account is going to look like a John Woo film.
ETA: Roy Benavidez’s account is going to look like a John Woo film.
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Posted on 10/4/18 at 1:18 pm to StarkRebel
For a split second I thought it was going to be a show based on the video game - especially when they opened with that live action WWII footage. 
But this looks awesome. I can't wait to see it.
But this looks awesome. I can't wait to see it.
Posted on 10/4/18 at 2:00 pm to StarkRebel
Looks phenomenal
Posted on 10/4/18 at 2:22 pm to StarkRebel
“The Medal of Honor represents the worst day of your life”.
Wow, I’ve really never thought about it that way until I just heard the guy say it.
Wow, I’ve really never thought about it that way until I just heard the guy say it.
Posted on 10/4/18 at 3:33 pm to StarkRebel
Wow, that looks great.
Posted on 10/4/18 at 3:38 pm to KirkLazarus
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Roy Benavidez’s account is going to look like a John Woo film.
Yep. Any SOG member's story will be unreal, like Bob Howard and Franklin Miller. Other good ones will be Tom Norris and Mike Thornton (who won his medal saving Norris, the only medal winner to receive the award saving another medal winner).
One of my favorite citations is Nelson Brittin:
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Citation: Sfc. Brittin, a member of Company I, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action. Volunteering to lead his squad up a hill, with meager cover against murderous fire from the enemy, he ordered his squad to give him support and, in the face of withering fire and bursting shells, he tossed a grenade at the nearest enemy position. On returning to his squad, he was knocked down and wounded by an enemy grenade. Refusing medical attention, he replenished his supply of grenades and returned, hurling grenades into hostile positions and shooting the enemy as they fled. When his weapon jammed, he leaped without hesitation into a foxhole and killed the occupants with his bayonet and the butt of his rifle. He continued to wipe out foxholes and, noting that his squad had been pinned down, he rushed to the rear of a machine gun position, threw a grenade into the nest, and ran around to its front, where he killed all 3 occupants with his rifle. Less than 100 yards up the hill, his squad again came under vicious fire from another camouflaged, sandbagged, machine gun nest well-flanked by supporting riflemen. Sfc. Brittin again charged this new position in an aggressive endeavor to silence this remaining obstacle and ran direct into a burst of automatic fire which killed him instantly. In his sustained and driving action, he had killed 20 enemy soldiers and destroyed 4 automatic weapons. The conspicuous courage, consummate valor, and noble self-sacrifice displayed by Sfc. Brittin enabled his inspired company to attain its objective and reflect the highest glory on himself and the heroic traditions of the military service.
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Posted on 10/4/18 at 3:39 pm to KirkLazarus
That looks good.
Complete stud
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Roy Benavidez’s account
Complete stud
Posted on 10/4/18 at 5:59 pm to Damone
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Other good ones will be Tom Norris and Bob Howard (who won his medal saving Norris, the only medal winner to receive the award saving another medal winner).
Bob Howard was a total stud, but he was Army SF. He was nominated 3 times for the MOH, but the first two actions were in Cambodia when were weren’t supposed to be there. In addition to his MOH and every other valor award, Howard received 8 Purple Hearts and lived to tell about it.
The SEAL who saved Tom Norris was Mike Thornton. And you are correct, that’s a great story. Plenty people know Norris’ name from the BAT-21 rescue mission, but Thonton’s rescue of Norris is even more incredible.
Posted on 10/4/18 at 7:41 pm to White Roach
shite my bad, i meant Mike Thornton. I had already mentioned Howard for the SOG medals and just repeated his name on accident. His story is like a Rambo movie, but real and unembellished. His medal stack outside of the MOH is impressive as hell.
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Posted on 10/5/18 at 12:02 am to Damone
They should tell the story of Jack Lucas. MOH recipient who feel on hard times, and total strangers stepped up to help him enjoy the dignity he deserved.
Posted on 10/5/18 at 12:47 am to Damone
I can’t wait to see the MOH recipients from the social justice war
Posted on 10/5/18 at 10:14 am to StarkRebel
Can’t wait. I have a feeling someone will be cutting onions at times when I’m watching.
Posted on 10/5/18 at 3:32 pm to PillageUrVillage
Can't wait for this.
Have watched a lot of these stories on YouTube:
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Have watched a lot of these stories on YouTube:
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On November 18, 1967, Private First Class Sammy Davis, wounded and under intense enemy fire, crossed a river to rescue three wounded soldiers near Cai Lay, Vietnam. On November 19, 1968, Davis received the Medal of Honor. The footage from that day as well as Davis's citation were used as source materials for the film Forrest Gump.
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Posted on 10/5/18 at 6:53 pm to StarkRebel
"Fix bayonets and follow me!” shouted Captain Lewis Millett as he led Company E, 2nd Battalion, 27th U.S. Infantry Regiment, in a Feb. 7, 1951, charge against entrenched Chinese positions atop Hill 180 during the Korean War.
Millet received a Medal of Honor for the action, which U.S. Army historian S.L.A. Marshall called “the most complete bayonet charge by American troops since [the 1864 Battle of] Cold Harbor.”
Lewis Lee Millett Sr. (December 15, 1920 – November 14, 2009) was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge.
In the ferocious fighting of early 1951, Millett recalled reading a document that said the Chinese believed American soldiers dreaded hand-to-hand combat, and were fearful of “cold steel.”
“We’ll see about that, you sons of bitches,” he muttered. At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.
Millett led the way and routed the Chinese. His Medal of Honor citation reads: “His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.”
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Millet received a Medal of Honor for the action, which U.S. Army historian S.L.A. Marshall called “the most complete bayonet charge by American troops since [the 1864 Battle of] Cold Harbor.”
Lewis Lee Millett Sr. (December 15, 1920 – November 14, 2009) was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge.
In the ferocious fighting of early 1951, Millett recalled reading a document that said the Chinese believed American soldiers dreaded hand-to-hand combat, and were fearful of “cold steel.”
“We’ll see about that, you sons of bitches,” he muttered. At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.
Millett led the way and routed the Chinese. His Medal of Honor citation reads: “His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.”
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Posted on 10/5/18 at 8:06 pm to StarkRebel
Wow wow wow
Gonna be some onions cut I’m sure during that series
Gonna be some onions cut I’m sure during that series
Posted on 10/5/18 at 8:09 pm to Damone
I read that and realize I’m a huge pussy
Posted on 10/5/18 at 8:59 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I saw a show abouts MOH recipients a few years back, maybe on the History Channel, that interviewed Sammy Davis. I don't remember all of the particulars, but his demeanor was just of a good old boy telling a story at the deer camp. It was like he really didn't want to brag, so he kind of downplayed his action a bit. He was at a firebase that had artillery. Some of the gun crews were killed and some of the gun pits were abandoned. They were getting a lot of pressure from one area of the perimeter were casualties were heavy. He went forward by himself, lowered a 105 to 0 elevation and fired a couple of beehive rounds point blank into the NVA assault. His casual comment was do.ething like "That settled 'em down a bit." Or "That shut them up."
He used an air mattress to cross a small river to retrieve some of the wounded from a listening post who were trying to get back inside the wire. I don't think he could swim, or maybe he wasn't a strong swimmer, but the whole story was just fricking nuts. Meanwhile, ol' Sammy is just making it sound like another day at the office.
He used an air mattress to cross a small river to retrieve some of the wounded from a listening post who were trying to get back inside the wire. I don't think he could swim, or maybe he wasn't a strong swimmer, but the whole story was just fricking nuts. Meanwhile, ol' Sammy is just making it sound like another day at the office.
Posted on 10/5/18 at 9:07 pm to White Roach
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Meanwhile, ol' Sammy is just making it sound like another day at the office.
A lot of them do.
The other guy went to Canada just so he could enter WWII quicker, got his MOH in Korea and then served in Vietnam but comes off as an aw shucks guy...I didn't do nothing special.
Sammy says War to him actually taught him love...and that every guy fighting is for the guy next to him and to not let them down as your brother.
You watch a lot of these MOH videos and you realize why most of them won them. None of them brag about themselves.
They say I don't deserve this and this is for the men who didn't make it home.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 9:30 am to StarkRebel
This is now available on Netflix.
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