(Photo: Associated Press)In 1943, US forces attacked and seized the island of Tarawa in what is now the Republic of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. More than a thousand Americans died taking that island from the Japanese....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/26/Remains-of-Marine-Corps-Hero-Lost-for-72-Years-Finally-Return-Home/(Photo: News 4 Jax)10-year old Kaley Szarmack was swimming off Jacksonville Beach, Florida last Wednesday. A three-foot shark bit one of her legs--a wound that would eventually require 90 stitches. But Kaley didn't let t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/25/10-Year-Old-Gets-Bitten-by-Shark-Escapes-Then-Jumps-Back-into-the-Water-to-Rescue-another-Child/(Image: Lucasfilm)Yes, that’s an image from the climactic trench run scene at the end of Star Wars. It’s not an error. That scene was inspired by the 1955 British war film The Dam Busters. That movie was a re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/13/RIP-The-Last-of-the-Dam-Busters/(Photo: USG via Materialscientist)Desmond Doss was... ...is remarkably long due to staggering scale of his badassery . This is merely a selection:On 2 May, he exposed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/10/Desmond-Doss-The-Pacifist-Who-Was-Awarded-the-Medal-of-Honor/(Image: USA Sevens Rugby)This is Georgia Page, an Australian student who plays rugby for Lindenwood University in Missouri. She’s a tough, savage competitor. She broke her nose during a match against Notre Dame, bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/22/Rugby-War-Goddess-Breaks-Nose-Hearts/(Photo: Flammingo)Margaret Seabrook is 75. Eileen Mason is 92. They live in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. Both of them use mobility scooters. The two ladies were returning home from a lunch club meeting when a mugger tried to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/15/92-Year-Old-Woman-Rams-Mugger-with-Her-Mobility-Scooter/Born in poverty and orphaned as a teenager in Hunt County, Texas, Audie Murphy lied about his age in order to try to get into the US Marine Corps. The Marines rejected him, saying that he was too small. Murphy went into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/26/70-Years-Ago-Today-Lt-Audie-Murphy-Holds-the-Line/(Photo of a surviving Zero by PENTAX)In 1943, 2d Lt. Owen J. Baggett of the US Army Air Force was deployed with the Tenth Air Force to India. At the time, Japan occupied Burma and threatened India. Lt. Baggett was the co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/10/Amazing-Story-from-World-War-II-Shooting-Down-a-Fighter-Plane-with-a-Handgun/(Photo: Hermanus Backpackers)James Grant went spearfishing with friends near Colac Bay off New Zealand's South Island. He was in about 6 feet of murky water when he felt something bite into his leg and pull on him.At fir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/28/Man-Fights-Off-Shark-Stitches-up-Own-Leg-Goes-to-Pub/Captain William Overstreet Jr. died in Roanoke, Virginia at the age of 92. During World War II, he flew a P-51 Mustang fighter plane. During the liberation of France, he performed one of the most daring fighter combat ac...
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