McKinney fires as he charges the position, finishing off the remaining enemy with his rifle butt upon reaching the pit. As mortar and rifle fire hammers his position, he uses his rifle (the machine gun being rendered inoperable) to "cut down waves of the fanatical enemy." When the smoke clears, 40 Japanese bodies litter the battlefield. McKinney - "the Pacific War's Audie Murphy" - has single-handedly carried the day.
Audie’s movie “To Hell and Back” is beautifully filmed. Technicolor CinemaScope.
Battle of Yellow Tavern was fought in 1864, not 1863.
Yes...
I like the Spirit of St.Louis.
Was Gen. Phil Sheridan. Sorry JEB but General Sheridan never wandered off from his army on the eve of a great battle leaving it blind in enemy territory. Actually, I always thought Stuart's finest moment was not as a cavalry officer but when he took over for a wounded Stonewall Jackson and directed his corps brilliantly during the third day of the battle of Chancellorsville.
If you have not read this already, it’s pretty amazing:
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/209
Murphy’s Medal of Honor citation
Here’s a little-known fact about Charles Lindbergh. During World War II Lindbergh flew 50 combat missions as a civilian. During one of those missions he shot down a Japanese plane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh#World_War_II
That McKinney feat is awesome. Like an Old Testament story.
J.E.B.’s a great...great granduncle of mine. Family tradition is he was just as most think of him.