A major league baseball player, brilliant scholar and World War II spy
Wilhelm Frankl was a fighter pilot in the German Luftwaffe during World War I who amassed 20 victories and won the Blue Max, making him a German war hero
World War I hero and first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross
From a family of rabbis he grew to become the highest ranking Jew in the United States Army
A survivor of Nazi concentration camps who after World War II joined the U.S. Army and became a bona fide Korean War hero
Single-handedly fought off scores of Japanese soldiers on Saipan posthumously earning him the Congressional Medal of Honor
A major player in the many battles against Mexico in the 1830s as well as a participant in the Cherokee Wars