<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the wily, elusive leader of the Philippine Insurrection a bedeviled Uncle Sam almost met his match.</span> </span></p>
<p>The admiral who commanded "the ship that wouldn't die" recalls the hellish and heroic hours after a kamikaze turned the carrier <em>Franklin</em> into an inferno.</p>
<p>The doughboys numbered only 550 men -- the remnants of four battalions -- and were surrounded by Germans. Then they were given the order to attack.</p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the Meuse-Argonne, this backwoods pacifist did what Marshal Foch saw as “the greatest thing accomplished by any private’ soldier of all the armies of Europe.”</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Charles Hopkins </span></span>received the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the battle of Gaines’ Mill, but his toughest fight was <span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">trying to survive at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp. He left this never-before-published record.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Their High Command abandoned them. Their enemy thought they wouldn’t fight. But a few days after Pearl Harbor, a handful of weary Americans gave the world a preview of what the Axis was up against.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">That’s what the newspapers called him, and he spent an increasingly reckless career trying to edit out the adjective. But even winning a war single-handed didn’t get him what he wanted.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Fifty years ago in the frozen mountains of Korea, the Marines endured a campaign as grueling and heroic as any in history.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Fate brought Custer and Sitting Bull together one bloody June evening at the Little Bighorn—and marked the end of the Wild West.</span></p>
