The best factual story from Stalingrad was Pavlov’s House, where Russian soldiers under Pavlov held off the Germans for days, with fighting even going on inside the house.
Pavlov found a discarded New Testament in the house, and after the war — despite being a Soviet hero — became an orthodox monk. Stalin apparently allowed this.
Never hear that story about the monk. Interesting.
And some of the bravest stories end with the brave person performing them, and nobody sees what they did, and the story dies with them.
Some unknown guy in a wagon with his family crossing Nebraska who died with his wife and kid fighting off Cheyenne probably fought with unspeakable bravery.
Some WWII pilot probably shot down 5 planes and became an ace and never made it home, and nobody ever knew.
Some grunt on Iwo Jima or probably fought fought three Japs in a desperate bayonet fight nobody saw and nobody survived.
God only knows what stories we will never know.