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"We will accept nothing less than full Victory!"

Surprisingly, surviving a fall like Lt. j.g. Levenson’s is not unheard of.

Editor's note: This article was originally published on June 18, 2015.

American airpower had to start somewhere

This is a Pass/Fail kind of course.

What he did that day had never been attempted before, and has never been repeated since.

Truth be told the AT-4 isn’t really even rated to go head to head with a battle tank.

Their final stand and sacrifice all took place in a matter of seconds.

First came the explosion. Then, the cover-up.

“This is going to be a fighting ship. I intend to go in harm’s way, and anyone who doesn’t want to go along had better get off right now."

18 years after the invasion of Iraq, a Marine looks back on his role in the whirlwind march to Baghdad.

"This set the conditions on how we were going to take care of our friends.”

“"My father used to say to my mother, 'Doesn't Patty look a lot like Adolf Hitler?'"

It was one of the most dramatic and important military missions of World War II.

After his aircraft was hit by an enemy mortar round, John Levitow saved his entire aircrew from certain death.

"Either out of ignorance or luck, he ended the danger.”

The film captures Green Berets with the 10th Special Forces Group conducting field training exercises.

It sounds like an idea that was cooked up in a Hollywood writer's room, but it really happened.

"I could no longer be the person I was prior to the Marine Corps."

"Sims made the greatest sacrifice a soldier can make … and no mark of tribute can be too great.”

"If you watched his body language ... you would get the message, 'I'm not the one to mess with.'"

Turns out that getting screwed over by the green weenie is a time-honored military tradition that dates back centuries

“The lessons passed on to crews trained since that fateful day are the true legacy of Spirit 03.”

Legend.

“That was such a glaring error."