Master Sgt. Charles Norman Shay was a combat medic with the Army’s 1st Infantry Division who fought on D-Day at Normandy, ...

James "Jimmy" Twedt, a 17-year-old from Roland, Iowa, was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Twedt, a Navy corpsman, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his ...

Under artillery fire in frozen Belgium, combat medics established battlefield medicine standards still used today.

An airborne soldier was recently recognized for fighting off an active shooter in North Carolina and saving a gunshot victim’s life in June 2023. Sgt. Brian R. Lieberman received the Soldier’s Medal, ...

Walter Knight, 101, pictured in his Colorado Springs home on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a medic in the Pacific during World War II. Knight worked as a watchmaker ...

Somewhere in South Korea, Jan. 26, 1957: Medics of Medical Company, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division treat a “wounded” soldier in the field. The medics participated in a field training ...

Sgt. Brian Lieberman received the Soldier's Medal for saving a gunshot victim during an active shooting at his apartment complex in North Carolina. An airborne soldier was recently recognized for ...

James "Jimmy" Twedt will be honored during the Roland American Legion's Memorial Day service. Twedt was killed in Iwo Jima and was awarded the Navy Cross.