Col. Lewis Millett died on Saturday at 88. He lead the last bayonet charge of the Korean War.
There’s also this: “As an antitank gunner in Tunisia, he earned the Silver Star after he jumped into a burning ammunition-filled halftrack, drove it away from allied soldiers and leapt to safety just before the vehicle exploded. Not long after, he shot down a German Messerschmitt Me-109 fighter that was strafing Allied troops. Col. Millett, who was firing from machine guns mounted on a halftrack, hit the pilot through the windshield.”
They still make ’em like that (as some of our troops in Irag and Afghanistan can attest), but there can never be enough…